Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching technical, regulatory and civil society countermeausres to online propaganda and media manipulation.
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Lisa-Maria Neudert is a researcher at the Computational Propaganda project, where her work is located at the nexus of political communication, technology studies and governance. Her previous research has focused on propanda, social bots and fake news—in its relation to the evolving digital media ecosystem. Lisa-Maria holds a MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford and a BA in Communication Science from the Ludwig-Maxmilians-University in Munich. Selected as a Fulbright scholar she studied at the Georgetown University in Washington DC and the National University of Singapore.
Research Interests
digital media, government and politics, Internet regulation and governance, political communication, news
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Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy
5 March 2018 The Economist
The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin’s tactics
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.