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Computational Propaganda Project

This project began in 2012 and has become an large, international endeavor to understand the impact of algorithms on public life.

The latest content and findings are available at www.comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk.

Project Team

Norah Abokhodair

A PhD student at UW, and has been a graduate student researcher for the project on computational propaganda.

Bence Kollanyi

A student at Corvinus University in Budapest, and we are working on the analysis of social media bots and European politics.

Samantha Shorey

A graduate student at UW. We are collaborating on several writing projects about algorithms, automation, and politics.

Sam Woolley

Joined the program in 2013, and we have co-authored a book chapter on bots and the manipulation of public opinion. He helps manage the Computational Propaganda project and I am chairing his doctoral committee.

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