Press Coverage

20 January 2021, BBC Digital Planet

Online manipulation on a global scale. Also GPS collars for grazing animals that avoid fencing and is ubiquitous connectivity increasing cybersecurity risks?

20 January 2021, NBC News

"It breaks my heart to step away from a game I put my heart and soul into," said American player Thomas Paparatto in a statement on Twitter.

19 January 2021, BBC Three

As debate continues as to the effect of gaming on our mental health & wellbeing, we speak to gamers from the UK who tell us how, for them, the positives outweigh the negatives.

18 January 2021, ORF Radio

Radio interview discussing how the pandemic is accelerating the use of artificial intelligence.

15 January 2021, The Irish News

Private companies are increasingly being hired by governments and political parties to manipulate public opinion through social media, according to new research.

15 January 2021, Der Spiegel

Internet propaganda is becoming an industrialized commodity, warns Phil Howard, the director of the Oxford Internet Institute.

15 January 2021, BBC News

In addition to the heavy restrictions it places on foreign journalists trying to report the truth about its far western region of Xinjiang, China has a new tactic: labelling independent coverage as "fake news".

14 January 2021, Bloomberg

00:14:34 onwards Professor Philip Howard lifts the curtain on the murky world of media manipulation.

14 January 2021, VOA News

Europe’s populist leaders are outraged by the decision of U.S. social-media giants to block U.S. President Donald Trump from posting on their sites.

14 January 2021, Engineering & Technology

A report from Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has found that governments and political parties are increasingly paying private companies to manipulate public opinion using social media platforms.

14 January 2021, Malay Mail

Malaysia is among 81 countries where the manipulation of public opinion through social media remains a growing threat to democracies around the world, a global study has found.

13 January 2021, El Salto

A study published on January 13 by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) confirms that the disinformation business carried out by “cyber troops” continues to be buoyant.

13 January 2021, i News

Coordinated social media campaigns are undermining democracy and spreading disinformation in 81 countries worldwide on an ‘industrial scale’ new report cautions.

13 January 2021, Mirage News

Social media manipulation of public opinion is a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute, which found evidence in every one of the 80+ countries surveyed.

13 January 2021, Central Fife Times

Private companies are increasingly being hired by governments and political parties to manipulate public opinion through social media, according to new research.

13 January 2021, The Financial Times

Oxford researchers find contractors employed to manipulate opinion in 48 countries

13 January 2021, Deutsche Welle

Two decades on from its founding, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into one of the most popular open-source websites.

13 January 2021, The Economist

Such campaigns are becoming more sophisticated and harder to stop.

13 January 2021, The Conversation

Donald Trump’s controversial removal from social media platforms has reignited debate around the censorship of information published online.

13 January 2021, Press Association

Private companies are increasingly being hired by governments and political parties to manipulate public opinion through social media, according to new research.