To Quash Disinformation, Researchers Must Work With Journalists
Exposing and fighting the problem requires drawing from reporters’ resources and reach.
What to expect when you’re expecting robots: Futures, expectations, and pseudo-artificial general intelligence in UK news
Drawing on scholarship in journalism studies and the sociology of expectations, this article demonstrates how news[...]
Read moreSourcing and Automation of Political News and Information over Social Media in the United States, 2016-2018
Social media is an important source of news and information in the United States. But during[...]
Read moreSourcing and Automation of Political News and Information During Three European Elections
Voters increasingly rely on social media for news and information about politics. But increasingly, social media[...]
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BBC World Service Interview
I was interviewed by the BBC World Service for their Global News Podcast, Report says millions of[...]
Read moreChinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo
A 2016 review of literature about automation, algorithms and politics identified China as the foremost area[...]
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Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More Critical Research Agenda
Computational propaganda has recently exploded into public consciousness. The U.S. presidential campaign of 2016 was marred[...]
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Russian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study finds
McClatchy
Russian operatives used Twitter and Facebook to target veterans and military personnel, study says
The Washington Post
Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security
Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We[...]
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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[...]
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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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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