Hannah is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project. Her research focuses on China’s use of state-sponsored digital disinformation. In particular, she focusses on the effect of China’s digital disinformation campaigns on international audiences by assessing how they interact with this disinformation. She employs both quantitative text analysis and social network analysis to explore, for example, China’s use of bots and the ways that external audiences engage with these bots. She holds a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, as well as two MScs, in Contemporary Chinese Studies, and in the Social Science of the Internet, both from Oxford University. She has also studied Mandarin at Fudan University (Shanghai). Her DPhil is generously funded by the Oxford Internet Institute’s Shirley Scholarship.
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
This project develops novel AI NLP tools to investigate how China is developing and strategically deploying AI and other tools for social control and online discourse manipulation.
This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
By Marcel Schliebs, Hannah Bailey, Jonathan Bright, and Philip N. Howard
The Chinese state increasingly employs social media in its public diplomacy efforts. This report by Oxford researchers lays out the vast extent of China’s operations on Twitter, where it controls a huge number of highly active accounts.
By Samantha Bradshaw, Hannah Bailey, and Philip N. Howard
Social media is increasingly used to spread political propaganda. This report outlines the extent of digital manipulation by state actors, despite the efforts of sites like Facebook and Twitter, arguing that it poses a critical threat to democracy.
11 May 2021
A new study by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford uncovers a coordinated amplification network promoting the Twitter accounts of PRC diplomats based in the United Kingdom.
11 May 2021
A new study by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford uncovers a coordinated amplification network promoting the Twitter accounts of PRC diplomats based in the United Kingdom.
13 January 2021
The manipulation of public opinion through social media remains a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.
Financial Times, 11 January 2024
Experts fear 2024 could be the year a viral undetectable deepfake has a catastrophic impact on an election
International Journalists' Network, 20 October 2022
Coordinated attempts to manipulate social media are ongoing in 81 countries and constitute a growing threat to democracy worldwide, according to a 2020 Oxford Internet Institute report.
The Times, 12 August 2021
China’s state media have been accused of spreading fake news and attempting to discredit the World Health Organisation after quoting a Swiss biologist who does not appear to exist.
