Our Data, Ourselves
Concentrated in a few hands, big data is a threat to democracy. Social media companies and[...]
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Impact of digital technologies on UK foreign policy – former ambassador and academics to give evidence to Lords International Relations Committee
Formal hearing at the House of Lords International Relations Committee....
Hard right dominates use of fake US news, Oxford study finds.
Podcast: Talking Politics
John Naughton talks to Philip Howard of the Oxford Internet Institute about whether the digital revolution[...]
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Russian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study finds
Russian operatives used Twitter and Facebook to target veterans and military personnel, study says
Facebook has so much more to tell us
Facebook and Twitter have taken the important step of handing over thousands of ads to Congress that were[...]
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Social media companies must respond to the sinister reality behind fake news
Research highlights need for paid political content to come with clear disclosures, write Philip Howard and[...]
Fake News on Twitter Flooded Swing States That Helped Trump Win
The project’s latest research on politicized information and the 2016 US election was covered in Mother Jones....
Read more Propaganda flowed heavily into battleground states around election, study says
Our latest research into polarizing information shared in the lead up to the 2016 US election was[...]
Read more Rightwing populist AfD dominates German Twitter, new study shows
Research by myself and my colleagues at the COMPROP team on the 2017 German election was covered[...]
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Far right makes most noise on Twitter in German election
Research by myself and my colleagues at the COMPROP team on the 2017 German election was covered[...]
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Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?
I spoke to the Atlantic for this story about regulating political advertising on Facebook....
Read more Spreading fake news becomes standard practice for governments across the world
Our research on government-sponsored social media manipulation was featured in a Washington Post article....
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How Bots Win Friends and Influence People
Along with the project’s work, I was featured in a short article on bots in IEEE Spectrum...
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Oxford profs tell Twitter, Facebook to take action against political bots
Our case study series was covered in the Register....
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