Balancing Product Reviews, Traffic Targets, and Industry Criticism: UK Technology Journalism in Practice

...examination of day-to-day technology reporting practice, the article demonstrates how journalists manage a range of pressures,[...]

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Topics Computational Social Science

Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation

Authors: J. Scott Brennen, Felix M. Simon, Philip N. Howard, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen In this[...]

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Social Media Misinformation and Lockdown Measures in Democracies

Authors: Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Philip N. Howard Given the evolving nature of the coronavirus pandemic—and[...]

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Covid-19 News and Information from State-Backed Outlets Targeting French, German and Spanish-Speaking Social Media Users

Authors: Katarina Rebello, Christian Schwieter, Marcel Schliebs, Kate Joynes-Burgess, Mona Elswah, Jonathan Bright, Philip N. Howard[...]

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Sourcing and Automation of Political News and Information over Social Media in the United States, 2016-2018

...influence campaigns, conspiracy, and alternative media. Anecdotally, the nature of political news and information evolved over[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda Social Media

Sourcing and Automation of Political News and Information During Three European Elections

...alternative media. How does the sourcing of political news and information define contemporary political communication in[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda Elections Governance Social Media

News and Political Information Consumption in Brazil: Mapping the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election on Twitter

In Brazil, there are rising concerns over computational propaganda and the political polarization it may cause.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

News and Political Information Consumption in Sweden: Mapping the 2018 Swedish General Election on Twitter

In Sweden, concerns over misinformation and computational propaganda and their effect on the democratic process are[...]

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Topics Elections Social Media

Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

...Computational propaganda still involves social media account automation and online commentary teams, but is making increasing[...]

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Topics Governance Social Media

News and Political Information Consumption in Mexico: Mapping the 2018 Mexican Presidential Election on Twitter and Facebook

In Mexico, there are rising concerns over computational propaganda and the political polarization it may cause.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo

...of 1.5 million comments on official political information posts on Weibo and 1.1 million posts using[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda Social Media

Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US

What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most[...]

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Topics Governance Social Media

Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More Critical Research Agenda

...bots to distribute political messages on social media. This computational propaganda is both a social and[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda

Russian Involvement and Junk News during Brexit

Several prominent UK politicians are concerned about the role of Russian troll and bot accounts in[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States

...of this attack based on data provided by social media firms to the Senate Select Committee[...]

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Topics Hackers Social Media

Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election

...ways in which algorithmic political communication—organized by automated scripts on social media—may undermine elections in democracies?[...]

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Topics Elections Governance