Oxford Internet Institute

6 April 2018, Daily News

Embattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that his platform will now have two faces, one for Europeans whose data is legally protected and one for Americans whose data is not.

5 April 2018, Wired

People spreading fake news in Malaysia could be sentenced to six years in jail under a new law. India, the UK, and France are among other countries planning laws for misinformation.

2 April 2018, Financial Times

A ‘data tax’ on Google, Facebook and Amazon would stimulate real competition

25 March 2018, BBC Radio 4

Do we need to "do something" about the effects of smartphones on teenage children? The backlash against the omnipresent devices has begun.

24 March 2018, The Hindu

The scandal over the way Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information to try to manipulate U.S. voters “is the most important moment that Facebook has faced since it went public (in 2012)”, according to Professor Andrew Przybylski.

24 March 2018, Phys.org

The scandal over the way Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information to try to manipulate US voters "is the most important moment that Facebook has faced since it went public (in 2012)," according to Professor Andrew Przybylski.

22 March 2018, WikiTribune

WikiTribune spoke to experts to better understand how Cambridge Analytica may have used the personal data of tens of millions of private citizens and to discuss the ethics of “Big Data”.

22 March 2018, Globe and Mail

Samantha Bradshaw is a senior fellow at the Canadian International Council. She is also a D.Phil. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher on the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University.

19 March 2018, Business Insider

Frequent social media use and screen time have been portrayed as universally bad for our health. However, a lot of research on this phenomenon has been characterised by poorly done studies and bad science.

12 March 2018, Wired

The future of work looks grim unless workers band together to rescue it

6 March 2018, Business Insider

Business Insider spoke to Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the University of Oxford and co-author of “Reinventing Capitalism in the age of big data."

5 March 2018, The Guardian

The automation revolution has hit recruitment, with everything from facial expressions to vocal tone now analysed by algorithms and artificial intelligence. But what’s the cost to workforce diversity – and workers themselves?

5 March 2018, The Economist

The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin’s tactics

3 March 2018, Wired

“We’re dealing with a problem that is even bigger than the platforms. It’s a problem with communication in the 21st century.”

2 March 2018, The Guardian

Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo of the Oxford Internet Institute, Prof Laura Norén of NYU and student Kandrea Wade.

2 March 2018, BBC News

Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation.

27 February 2018, Financial Times

Tech groups must remove more bots, share data and curb new products, researchers say

23 February 2018, BBC News

Is the battle against online propaganda already being lost as AI puts powerful new weapons in the hands of the fake news merchants?

22 February 2018, Huffington Post

A new study by Oxford University has found that despite what you might think, social media is not the “echo chamber” that you might think it is.