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    Covid19

    Oxford Internet Institute is applying its multi-disciplinary approach to help the world make sense of the societal and economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in the digital age.

    This page collects together the OII’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

     

    News

    Tech companies continue to provide online infrastructure for contentious Covid-19 websites even after flagging them as fake news, finds new Oxford study
    Groundbreaking new study says time spent playing video games can be good for your wellbeing
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    Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
    NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
    Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study
    How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
    Media
    Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed
    Digital Technology
    COVID-19 and the Digital Divides
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    What Big Tech does to discourse, and the forgotten tech tool that can make tech less big with Cory Doctorow
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    State-backed media from China and Russia targets European and Latin American audiences with coronavirus news
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    Countering the COVID-19 Misinfodemic with Text Similarity and Social Data Science
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    Understanding Online Misinformation in Iran, the Epicentre of Coronavirus in the Middle East
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    Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance
    Almost half of all administrative tasks in general practice could be automated, says new report
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    COVID-19 apps and their ethical considerations
    Globe China
    Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media
    Inside Scoop Podcast
    The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast
    Platform economy assessed for first time in Germany: COVID-19 pandemic brings into sharp relief risks faced by workers
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    Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts
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    Misinformation, media and trust

    Mentions in the press

    The Guardian
    Concerns grow for children’s health as screen times soar during Covid crisis
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    ORF Radio
    When the algorithm awards grades
    Read in ORF Radio
    Forbes
    Google Launches $3 Million Fund To Tackle Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
    Read in Forbes
    Financial Times
    UK on high alert for anti-vaccine disinformation from hostile states
    Read in The Financial Times
    THE ACIT Science Podcast
    #7: The Rise of Computational Propaganda with Marcel Schliebs
    Read in The ACIT Science Podcast
    Poynter
    Fact-checking Trump was a volume business. How will that change with Biden?
    Read in Poynter
    The Washington Post
    Covid disinformation sites often use tools from Google, Facebook and Apple, report finds
    Read in The Washington Post
    The Commons
    Human or Machine? Social Science or Computer Science? Yes, we need them all
    Read in The Commons
    Financial Times
    Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all
    Read in The Financial Times
    European Journalism Observatory
    Dos and don’ts for media covering non-peer-reviewed research
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    Link
    Crossing the information disorder
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    The Telegraph
    What would it take for Facebook to pull the plug on Donald Trump?
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    ComputerWeekly
    Employees overwhelmingly hostile to workplace monitoring tech
    Read in Computer Weekly
    Politico
    QAnon goes European
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    Financial Times
    TikTok battles to stay ‘apolitical’ ahead of US election
    Read in The Financial Times
    Forbes
    Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work
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    Medical Xpress
    NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
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    Politico
    Gig platforms treated workers ‘unfairly’ during pandemic, study says
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    Tech Tent
    PODCAST: How misinformation spreads
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    Financial Times
    Revamped NHS tracing app gets off to promising start
    Read in The Financial Times