Oxford Internet Institute

21 June 2017 BBC News

If you've been chatting about politics on social media recently, there's a good chance you've been part of a conversation that was manipulated by bots, researchers say.

21 June 2017 Wired

A study from the Oxford Internet Institute warns that social networks have to do more to stymie the tide of fake news, which damages our democracies.

20 June 2017 The Register

The use of algorithms and bots to spread political propaganda is "one of the most powerful tools against democracy", top academics have warned.

19 June 2017 The Conversation

Following the attack on a group of Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park that left one person dead and 11 injured, Londoners have once again demonstrated their strength and unity in the face of violence, says Bharath Ganesh.

19 June 2017 The Guardian

Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals.

18 June 2017 The Conversation

Media reports that compare social media to drug use are ignoring evidence of positive effects, while exaggerating and generalising the evidence of negative effects, says Andy Przybylski.

8 June 2017 SciDevNet

Africa has traditionally been left out of what is called the knowledge economy, but this is a concern, write Sanna Ojanpera and Mark Graham.

6 June 2017 Mail & Guardian

“Only eight countries in Africa ... have a majority of content that is locally produced,” according to a new study published last month in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

2 June 2017 Slate

We need more transparency from social networks, say Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley.

1 June 2017 BBC News

Researchers at Oxford University have found that the quality of news available to British voters on Twitter is superior to that available to Americans ahead of the election of Donald Trump as president.

31 May 2017 Quartz

A Google search for “Accra,” the capital of Ghana, returns its Wikipedia entry, travel advice from Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor, and a few news websites like the Guardian.

31 May 2017 The Guardian

OII authors of social media report say party pulling in highest proportion of tweets despite not leading in the polls.

22 May 2017 The Guardian

With Facebook becoming a key electoral battleground, researchers are studying how automated accounts are used to alter political debate online.

18 May 2017 BBC News

Phil Howard and Sam Woolley discuss political bots and propaganda on BBC News at Ten.

18 May 2017 New Scientist

Social media has had a large impact on the transparency of political campaigns, says Jonathan Bright of the Oxford Internet Institute.

17 May 2017 BBC News

Bots appear to be spamming a US regulator's website over a proposed reversal of net neutrality rules; Phil Howard comments.

15 May 2017 Sky News

Helen Margetts discusses targeting of political advertisements on social media.

4 May 2017 The Financial Times

The rise of the algorithm need not be bad news for humans -- but we will need to take care of the digital environment, says Luciano Floridi. The best protection against any algorithmic errors is to put human intelligence back into the equation.

1 May 2017 American Academy for the Advancement of Science

Taha Yasseri is an editor of the Frontiers in Physics special issue "At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science", which is one of ten in the running for the US$100,000 Frontiers Spotlight Award.

1 May 2017 Scientific American

It pays to get the time spent on a device just right; Scientific American covers a study on teen screen use by Andrew K. Przybylski and Netta Weinstein, published in Psychological Science.