Oxford Internet Institute

6 November 2018, BBC News

The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests.

5 November 2018, Oxford Mail

Screen time may not have as big an impact on children’s sleep as once thought, according to new research.

4 November 2018, CBC

That's the gap the Oxford University-based OLI is attempting to bridge, and its creators boast that the index is the first of its kind — a global economic indicator for the online gig economy.

4 November 2018, Newsweek

In a press release on Thursday, the Oxford Internet Institute said the proportion of junk news in circulation on social media sites since the presidential election grew by five percent.

2 November 2018, Washington Post

After analyzing 2.5 million tweets and 6,986 Facebook pages, the Oxford Internet Institute has just found that the amount of biased, hyperbolic and conspiratorial “junk news” in circulation is actually greater than it was in 2016.

1 November 2018, Financial Times

Researchers see increase in deceptive or conspiratorial content on Twitter and Facebook

1 November 2018, TechCrunch

With the US midterms fast approaching purveyors of online disinformation are very busy indeed spreading their hyper-partisan junk on Facebook

1 November 2018, Reuters

Fake news surrounding the murder of journalist Khashoggi. Comment by Lisa-Maria Neudert.

1 November 2018, The Washington Post

There’s even more phony or misleading political news circulating on social media than there was in 2016

29 October 2018, Time

Last year, Przybylski published a study that examined an older (2011-2012) version of the same Census Bureau dataset that Twenge and her coauthor analyzed in their new paper.

23 October 2018, National Law Review

While the future of humankind is artificial intelligence, what exactly is the future of artificial intelligence?

22 October 2018, Financial Times

Computerised assaults are easy to unleash but hard to trace, and befuddle the enemy

22 October 2018, The Telegraph

Uber has been hit by a online boycott in Saudi Arabia after the taxi hailing app pulled out of a conference in response to the alleged murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

21 October 2018, The Telegraph

"The big difference is whether you are using it [your smartphone] for what you want to, or whether you are unconsciously using it all the time,” says Professor Andrew Przybylski, experimental psychologist and director of research at OII.

19 October 2018, BBC World Service

Millions of Tweets allegedly from state-backed Russian and Iranian groups are released.

18 October 2018, MIT Technology Review

In a paper published in Nature Human Behavior earlier this year, ethicists Carl Öhman and Luciano Floridi from the Oxford Internet Institute argue that we need an ethical framework for the burgeoning digital afterlife industry.

18 October 2018, Irish Times

Fake news researcher sides with critics over ineffective move by Google and Facebook

17 October 2018, ARS Technica

Some tentative links are in place, but many crucial details are fuzzy.

13 October 2018, Business Insider

Dr Sandra Wachter, an AI researcher at Oxford University, told Business Insider that the gender bias was hardly surprising.

12 October 2018, Wired

Large technology companies are often accused of dodging their fair share of tax. But what they're doing is perfectly legal... for now