Mohsen Mosleh is an Associate Professor in Social Data Science at Oxford Internet Institute and a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. He is also a research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Mohsen’s work lies at the intersection of computational science (data science) and cognitive psychology. He studies how misinformation and disinformation spread on social media and how ties are formed on social networks. In his work he develops large scale digital field experiments and multi-platform approaches.
His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, and PNAS and has been covered in major media outlets including The Washington Post, the Telegraph and the Financial Times. He has received Meta Foundational Integrity & Social Impact Research Award, Google Scholar Research Program Award, British Academy Award, and the British Science Associate Award.
Social Media, Digital Field Experiments, Networks, Online Misinformation, Online Harm, Polarization
With Dr Mohsen Mosleh, and Cameron Martel
The link between misinformation and polarisation on social media, what's being done to combat misinformation and disinformation, the role of social media platforms and regulators, and where the research gaps are.
22 April 2025
In his latest opinion piece, Dr Mohsen Mosleh explores the role of shared ideology and social connection as influencing factors in fact-checking and countering online misinformation.
31 March 2025
New research reveals that social connections, more so than political alignment, can promote engagement with user-driven corrections of misinformation on social media platforms like X.
7 November 2024
According to Oxford and MIT researchers, social media users are more likely to follow and engage with like-minded accounts that demonstrate similar political views – but to what extent is this driven by interest in the content itself?
2 October 2024
New research from a team of US and UK researchers has found that politically conservative users tend to share misinformation at a greater volume than politically liberal users.
msnbc.com, 05 October 2024
The narrative that government, academia and the private sector are conspiring to censor conservatives is flat-out false.
The Hill, 10 October 2024
Social media platforms’ suspensions of accounts may not be rooted in political biases, but rather certain political groups’ tendency to share misinformation, according to a new study.
The Register, 05 October 2024
A scientific paper published in the journal Nature this week confirms that conservative groups are more likely to be subjected to moderation were also more likely to share misinformation from low-quality news sites.
This course emphasizes the application of commonly used statistical techniques to research on the Internet and society.
