Information Technologies and Omnivorous News Diets Over Three U.S. Presidential Elections
Technology convergence and rising expectations for interactivity have had a significant impact on the news diets[...]
Read morePolitical Parties & Voter Privacy: Australia, Canada, the United States and United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective
Political parties are among the most lax, unregulated organizations handling large volumes of personally identifiable data[...]
Read moreNew Challenges to Political Privacy: Lessons from the First U.S. Presidential Race in the Web 2.0 Era
Pundits and scholars laud online campaigning for its potential to democratize politics and praise the 2008[...]
Read moreDigitizing the Social Contract: Producing American Political Culture in the Age of New Media
Campaigns are complex exercises in the creation, transmission, and mutation of significant political symbols. However, there[...]
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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”[...]
To Quash Disinformation, Researchers Must Work With Journalists
BBC World Service Interview
I was interviewed by the BBC World Service for their Global News Podcast, Report says millions of[...]
Read moreSenate Testimony
I was in Washington this week providing testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The[...]
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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....
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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