CNN: What’s Stunning about the Misinformation Trend — and How to Fix it
This originally appeared as “What’s Stunning about the Misinformation Trend — and How to Fix it” in December 2021 in CNN Opinion.
Phil Howard
Author, Professor
Social Science Innovations
This open, self paced, short course on research methods helps researchers think innovatively about social research in these difficult times. I picked a range of methods that demonstrate how Covid doesn’t have to close down ambitious thinking in the social sciences. Each course includes handouts, exercises and learning goals, and […]
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Wired: To Quash Disinformation, Researchers Must Work With Journalists
This originally appeared as “To Quash Disinformation, Researchers Must Work With Journalists” in February 2021 in Wired. Exposing and fighting the problem requires drawing from reporters’ resources and reach.
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Senate Testimony
I was in Washington this week providing testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The submitted written testimony, Foreign Influence on Social Media Platforms: Perspectives from Third Party Social Media Experts can be viewed online, along with a recording of the accompanying verbal testimony. The testimony was covered in […]
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Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
The manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life. Around the world, a range of government agencies and political parties are exploiting social media platforms to spread junk news and disinformation, exercise censorship and control, and undermine trust in the media, […]
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Commentary Essays
CNN: What’s Stunning about the Misinformation Trend — and How to Fix it
This originally appeared as “What’s Stunning about the Misinformation Trend — and How to Fix it” in December 2021 in CNN Opinion.
Books
Lie Machines
Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. In Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives (May 19, 2020 publication date), author […]
Academic Articles
“Anything that Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)
Authors: Mona Elswah, Philip N Howard RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in the world producing, disseminating, and marketing news in the service of the Kremlin. It is an […]
Policy Papers
Global Attitudes Towards AI, Machine Learning & Automated Decision Making
Implications for Involving Artificial Intelligence in Public Service and Good Governance Authors: Lisa-Maria Neudert, Aleksi Knuutila, Philip N. Howard How do people perceive the risks of using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning tools in decision making? Using survey data from a sample of 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we […]
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Global Attitudes Towards AI, Machine Learning & Automated Decision Making
Implications for Involving Artificial Intelligence in Public Service and Good Governance Authors: Lisa-Maria Neudert, Aleksi Knuutila, Philip N. Howard How do people perceive the risks of using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning tools in decision making? Using survey data from a sample of 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we […]
Academic Articles / Publications
“Anything that Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)
Authors: Mona Elswah, Philip N Howard RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in the world producing, disseminating, and marketing news in the service of the Kremlin. It is an […]
Professional / Publications
Covid-Related Misinformation on YouTube
The Spread of Misinformation Videos on Social Media and the Effectiveness of Platform Policies Authors: Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen, Philip N. Howard For this memo, we identified all Covid-related videos which circulated on social media, but which YouTube eventually removed because they contained false […]
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