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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

    Why the future of work needs trust
    New Oxford report shows freelance and microwork platforms fail to provide minimum fairness standards for their global workforce 
    Can online labour platforms bring jobs to the countryside?
    Youtube Video
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    ‘From facial recognition technology to children online: regulating data protection in 2021’ with Elizabeth Denham CBE
    National Apprenticeship Week 2021: In conversation with Maisy Gills, OII Apprentice Administrative Assistant
    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
    Iran flag over Tehran
    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
    Youtube Video
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    Misinformation, media and trust
    Report finds gig workers are among the most vulnerable groups in South Africa’s Covid-19 crisis
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    Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing 04-05-2020
    Floridi to join Ethics Advisory Board for NHSx COVID-19 app
    New report finds gig economy companies must do more to protect workers during COVID-19
    Digital Economies Economic analysis of problems ranging from media bias to cybersecurity explains incentives and behavior in our digital world.
    How worried are businesses about COVID-19? A novel indicator measures industry-specific risk assessments in times of the pandemic
    Fabian Stephany
    The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States
    Philip Howard
    Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance
    iPhone by Gonzalo Baeza
    Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems
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    Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing 20-04-2020
    YouTube proving a popular source of reliable information on COVID-19, but public health agencies could make greater use of channel
    Setting Mental Health Science Priorities for the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The COVID-19 ‘infodemic’: what does the misinformation landscape look like and how can we respond?
    Covid19
    State-backed media in Russia, China, Iran and Turkey successful in sharing misleading stories on COVID-19
    Fabian Stephany
    Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work
    Oxford Internet Institute
    How OII is operating during the Coronavirus

    Mentions in the press

    Metro
    Kremlin bots are fuelling chaos and lies about the pandemic
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    The Guardian
    Covid ticketing rules exclude people not online from major events
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    Time
    Migrants in Latin America Have Turned to Delivery Gigs During the Pandemic.
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    Nikkei Asia
    https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/What-COVID-can-teach-us-about-learning-from-home
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    BBC News
    ‘Deepfake is the future of content creation’
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    BBC IPlayer
    BBC Click ‘The Next Level’
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    Independent
    QAnon: How the US Satanic paedophile cult conspiracy theory took root in Europe
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    ComputerWeekly
    Internet companies should provide real-time data on disinformation, Lords told
    Read in Computer Weekly
    Business Insider
    How Fox News hosts started attacking COVID-19 vaccines after Biden took over the rollout from Trump
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    BBC News
    The computers rejecting your job application
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    El Espectador
    The pandemic has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories
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    The Washington Post
    Will Twitter ban Iran’s supreme leader next?
    Read in The Washington Post
    The Guardian
    Concerns grow for children’s health as screen times soar during Covid crisis
    Read in The Guardian
    ORF Radio
    When the algorithm awards grades
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    Forbes
    Google Launches $3 Million Fund To Tackle Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
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    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
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    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
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    The Commons
    Human or Machine? Social Science or Computer Science? Yes, we need them all
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    Financial Times
    Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all
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    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
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    Politico
    QAnon goes European
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    Financial Times
    TikTok battles to stay ‘apolitical’ ahead of US election
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    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
    Tech Round
    Facebook Fact-Checkers Spot Less Than 1% of Coronavirus-Related Fake News, Oxford Study Finds
    Read in Tech Round
    The Telegraph
    Facebook is hampering efforts to crack down on Covid-19 fake videos
    Read in The Telegraph
    Public Technology.net
    Policymakers must start asking difficult questions on the ethics of AI in healthcare
    Read in Public Technology.net
    Wired
    Your Apple Watch could soon tell you if you’ve got coronavirus
    Read in Wired
    Financial Times
    The real fake news about Covid-19
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    MIT Technology Review
    The UK exam debacle reminds us that algorithms can’t fix broken systems
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    The Guardian
    Philip N Howard: ‘Social media need a radical rebuild’
    Read in The Guardian
    The Telegraph
    Demise of Facebook ‘would pose serious risk to people’s privacy’
    Read in The Telegraph
    Press Association
    What would happen if Facebook shut down? Scientists analyse data privacy risks
    Read in Press Association
    The New York Times
    Covid-19 misinformation websites benefit from Google and Amazon ad networks, study says.
    Read in New York Times
    Sky News
    Coronavirus: Legislation needed to stop ‘virulent’ spread of COVID disinformation
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    El Pais
    Privacy: the totalitarian risk
    Read in El País
    Al-Jazeera logo
    The Great Facebook Boycott: Will it make any difference?
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    The Conversation
    A more guided visit – how to reopen museums and galleries safely
    Read in The Conversation
    The Globe Post
    Russian, Chinese Media Target Europeans With COVID-19 Fake News: Study
    Read in The Globe Post
    Rappler
    Distorted Chinese, Russian virus news takes root in West – study
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    Inverse
    How The Internet Will Change Our Coronavirus Memories
    Read in Inverse
    Les Echos
    Containment? Very little for them!
    Read in Les Echos