Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Research

Current projects

• Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media

  Participants: Professor Phil Howard, Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Dr J. Scott Brennen

  In this three-year programme researchers will examine the interplay between systematic misinformation campaigns, news coverage, and increasingly important social media platforms for public understanding of science and technological innovation.

Press

• Facebook is hampering efforts to crack down on Covid-19 fake videos

  21 September 2020 The Telegraph

  
  

  YouTube had improved its algorithm to promote credible sources, but videos were still going viral elsewhere.

• 22 researchers take ‘the stage’ and share their findings at Global Fact 7

  24 June 2020 Poynter

  
  

  On day 3 of Global Fact 7, fact checkers explored some of the thorniest issues faced in battling misinformation in Asia and the Balkans. Then nearly two-dozen academics and researchers shared their latest findings on a broad range of topics.

• As Social Media Continues to Generate ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19, Experts Try to ‘Inoculate the Infotagion’

  28 April 2020 News 18

  
  

  The Covid-19 crisis has helped world discover the perils of misinformation, especially when it comes from the top.

• They are not fake news, it is propaganda. And the state doesn’t create its “truth”

  9 April 2020 La Repubblica

  
  

  The pandemic is a huge test for the network, freedom and the growth of digital awareness. This epochal passage cannot be addressed only with governmental "task forces" that put the stamp on the sites.

• Majority of coronavirus misinformation ‘twists and reworks facts’, study finds

  9 April 2020 euronews

  
  

  Nearly two-thirds of inaccurate coronavirus claims have a grain of truth in them but are twisted into something false, a study has found.

• Coronavirus: Call for apps to get fake Covid-19 news button

  9 April 2020 BBC News

  
  

  Social networks need a dedicated button to flag up bogus coronavirus-related posts, an advocacy group has said.

• On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online — without a warning label

  8 April 2020 The Washington Post

  
  

  Facebook and YouTube do better, but still leave some misinformation up.

• Influencers among ‘key distributors’ of coronavirus misinformation

  8 April 2020 The Guardian

  
  

  Study suggests mainstream news outlets struggling to compete with celebrities’ and politicians’ reach.

• “Reconfigured” or purely fabricated? Coronavirus misinformation comes in multiple forms and demands multiple solutions

  8 April 2020 Nieman Lab

  
  

  The wide variety and diversity of information about COVID-19.

• 900% Increase in Fact-Checks Around COVID-19 in 3 Months: Study

  8 April 2020 The Quint

  
  

  A report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found that there has been a 900 percent increase in English fact-checks published between January and March 2020.

• What Corona false reports look like

  8 April 2020 Süddeutsche Zeitung

  
  

  False reports about the corona virus are currently booming, they are circulating on social networks and private chat groups.

• Lies in Corona times

  8 April 2020 Die Welt

  
  

  Drinking tea, gargling chlorine bleach, swallowing vitamin C - there is currently a flood of fake news about the corona virus. Researchers have analyzed the news. This shows a disturbing pattern.

• Coronavirus: Twitter, bad student in the fight against disinformation

  8 April 2020 Le Figaro

  
  

  Almost 60% of “fake news”, however verified, continues to circulate without warning on the social network.