Lisa-Maria Neudert

Research

Current projects

• Computational Propaganda

  Participants: Professor Philip Howard, Dr Vidya Narayanan, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Samantha Bradshaw

  This project will focus on how bots, algorithms and other forms of automation are used by political actors in countries around the world.

• Political Communication, AI and Data Diversity in the US

  Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan

  This project investigates contemporary trends in political communication, political polarization, artificial intelligence, and data diversity in the United States.

• Strengthening Digital Democracy

  Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan

  This programme supports research into the use of computational propaganda in developing democracies, our management of strategic relations with industry, government and civil society stakeholders, and capacity transfer to civil society groups.

News

• Collective action needed now to tackle spread of disinformation in public life, finds new report

  16 October 2019

  A new report from the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission (OxTEC), convened by the Oxford Internet Institute, calls for coordinated action by the public and private sector to address and redress problems around disinformation in public life today.

• Self-regulation of social media platforms failing to curb disinformation, says new report

  11 October 2019

  A new report from the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission (OxTEC) has found many of the self-regulatory measures taken by social media platforms have failed to prevent the spread of disinformation.

• Action needed to restore trust in political campaigning, says new report

  9 October 2019

  A new report from the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission (OxTEC) calls for changes to the current rules around digital political campaigning, to restore public trust in campaigns and elections more broadly.

• Junk news dominating coverage of US midterms on social media, new research finds

  1 November 2018

  25% of content shared around US midterms is junk news, despite efforts by the platforms to curb the problem

• Brazil elections ‘not at risk’ from junk news on Twitter, new research finds

  5 October 2018

  Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford conclude only 1.2% of Twitter content connected to the elections is junk news

Press

• UK vulnerable to malicious meddling in election, warns study

  16 October 2019 The Guardian

  
  

  Britain needs to take concerted action to reduce the risk of malicious actors in the UK and abroad from contaminating the results of a looming general election, according to a new study that warns of the risks of public “abuse and deception”.

• Fight fake news by tracking political parties’ social media, says Oxford study

  11 October 2019 Sky News

  
  

  The election watchdog is being encouraged to adopt new rules to curb the spread of disinformation.

• Fake news network vs bots: the online war around Khashoggi killing

  1 November 2018 Reuters

  
  

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

• Right-wing sites swamp Sweden with ‘junk news’ in tight election race

  6 September 2018 Reuters

  
  

  One in three news articles shared online about the upcoming Swedish election come from websites publishing deliberately misleading information, most with a right-wing focus on immigration and Islam, Oxford University researchers say.

• Future elections may be swayed by intelligent, weaponized chatbots

  22 August 2018 MIT Technology Review

  
  

  The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.

• Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy

  5 March 2018 The Economist

  
  

  The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin’s tactics

• Twitter boss seeks help with online abuse

  2 March 2018 BBC News

  
  

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

• Russian Tumblr trolls pose as black activists, says Buzzfeed

  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.

• Facebook to push local news to curb ‘fake news’

  31 January 2018 Al Jazeera

  
  

  Lisa-Maria Neudert speaks to Al Jazeera on changes to Facebook's newsfeed.

• Information in a world of misinformation – real and fake news in the digital age

  29 January 2018 CMS

  
  

  Lisa-Maria Neudert takes part in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

• ‘Fixing’ Facebook?

  16 January 2018 BBC Business Daily

  
  

  Facebook is changing its news feed algorithms, but will it make engagement on the site more 'meaningful'? We hear how businesses and publishers will be affected from Lisa-Maria Neudert, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.