Press Coverage

24 October 2020, The Financial Times

Mid-tier social media stars are being hired by marketing agencies to push political messages.

23 October 2020, Politico

Populists, protesters, conspiracy theorists: How Europe is embracing America’s latest export.

22 October 2020, The Financial Times

TikTok, the short-video app known for hosting viral dance challenges and comedy skits, has said it aspires to be an “uplifting and welcoming app environment” for millions of young users.

16 October 2020, Forbes

Ever since Oxford's Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies might have.

15 October 2020, The New Statesman

The notion that the contentious British firm played a pivotal role in the Trump and Brexit votes has become ever harder to maintain.

15 October 2020, The Guardian

Mere hours after the publication of a controversial New York Post article critical of Joe Biden, both Twitter and Facebook took unprecedented action to restrict distribution of the post.

12 October 2020, Which-50

The perceived risk of artificial intelligence is linked to people’s location and profession, according to a new study, with those in the West typically much more concerned about the technology.

12 October 2020, Medical Xpress

Behavioural science should undergo rigorous testing and review before it informs public policy such as government responses to COVID-19, according to a paper in Nature Human Behaviour titled "Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy."

12 October 2020, Wired

Political strategists say they combine information from multiple databases to identify the people they want to vote—and not vote.

9 October 2020, The Telegraph

With American democracy under threat, are the companies doing enough?

8 October 2020, The Washington Post

A Washington Post investigation found that teenagers had been recruited to pepper social media with conservative messages.

7 October 2020, Irish Tech News

In a new study by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, ‘Global Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Automated Decision Making, analysis shows that public perceptions on the use of AI in public life is divided.

6 October 2020, Business Insider

Facebook is taking on a Netflix documentary about the dark side of social media, saying it buries the truth in sensationalism.

5 October 2020, Computer Weekly

Almost three-quarters of regular internet users recognised at least one of the three main online risks – fake news, cyber bullying and fraud – but fake news ranks as by far and away the biggest concern, according to the Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s World

4 October 2020, Business Insider

The Trump campaign in 2016 used online ads to try and dissuade Black voters from voting, according to an investigation this week by UK broadcaster Channel 4.

4 October 2020, Deutschlandfunk

Can algorithms, internet trolls and malware endanger democracy? In the social networks, false reports, half-truths and interpretations circulate across all borders.

30 September 2020, Business Insider

The now-defunct Cambridge Analytica entered the news cycle once again on Monday, four years after its name became synonymous with the huge data scandal that changed the tech landscape forever.

28 September 2020, Politico

Academics from the University of Oxford interviewed almost two dozen current and former RT journalists about their time at the Kremlin-backed media outlet.

28 September 2020, The Next Web

Mariarosaria Taddeo, Deputy Director of the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab, explains why AI ethics must be a continuous practice

25 September 2020, Tech Tent

Rory Cellan-Jones examines how misinformation spreads across online platforms.