Oxford Internet Institute

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.

21 February 2018, BBC News

"This is a company that's under a lot of heat to clean up its act in terms of how its platform has been exploited to spread misinformation and junk news," said Samantha Bradshaw from the University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project.

19 February 2018, The New Statesman

Opinion piece by OII's Dr Huw Davies on how education may be the only way to combat disinformation, and what provisions currently exist in England and Wales

16 February 2018, Wired

Netflix, Spotify and Tinder have all been revealing personal details of customers in attempt to create viral marketing campaigns. Fun, right? Wrong

12 February 2018, The Guardian

Once seen as saviours of democracy, tech giants are now viewed as threats to truth. But how did our faith in all things digital turn into an erosion of trust, particularly in the arena of information and politics?

12 February 2018, The Guardian

A study shows that US supporters of populism read and share the most junk news, muddying the waters of honest debate

12 February 2018, The Guardian

The PM has joined the social media ‘techlash’, but only new laws, not pious aspirations, will make a difference

12 February 2018, BBC News

A study from the University of Oxford, suggested that while children do spend a lot of time online, they have some sophisticated ways of balancing online and offline time.

12 February 2018, NPR

The December issue of the journal Big Data was dedicated to the problem of computational propaganda. In it, researchers Gillian Bolsover and Philip Howard, of the Oxford Internet Institute, define the dangers that need to be addressed.

9 February 2018, The New Statesman

Despite having held this major review, the government’s response has mainly consisted of highlighting the need for further consultation on proposals to improve work in the on-demand economy.

8 February 2018, BBC News

Lisa-Maria Neudert, a researcher with the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, said that there were "a lot of parallels" between the trolls' strategy on Tumblr and other social media sites.

8 February 2018, The Washington Post

n three months leading up to President Trump’s first State of the Union address, the institute’s researchers combed through a heap of data on social-media networks, the better to understand who’s guilty of spreading bogus news out there in the world.

7 February 2018, Science Magazine

In Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge argue that big data will transform our economies on a fundamental level.

7 February 2018, The Guardian

Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) found that “on Twitter, a network of Trump supporters shares the widest range of junk news and circulates more junk news than all other political audience groups combined”.

7 February 2018, Harvard Business Review

But if innovation is founded on data rather than human ideas, the firms that benefit are the ones that have access to the most data.

6 February 2018, The Guardian

University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter.

6 February 2018, Financial Times

Research increases pressure on Facebook and Twitter to rein in false information.

5 February 2018, The Guardian

Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute used data from a sample of the largest dark web marketplaces in 2017.

4 February 2018, The New York Times

Britain accounts for the largest number of fentanyl sales on the limited access darknet in Europe, with 1,000 trades being made in recent months, research by the Oxford Internet Institute found.

1 February 2018, EdSurge

In a study published last month, researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and Cardiff University found that there was no correlation between parents’ adherence to screen time guidance and their children’s wellbeing.