OII | Fake News Bots

Published on
10 Jan 2017

Written by
Gillian Bolsover

Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda Project to learn more about this phenomenon.

Listen to the interview with OPB’s Think Out Loud.

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Dr Gillian Bolsover

Former Researcher

Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.

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Sam Woolley

Former Research Assistant

Samuel Woolley was the Director of Research of the Computational Propaganda project, and left the OII to become Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.

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