Here are the books, scholarly articles, conference papers, and public writing from our team.
The article 'What is platform governance?' by Robert Gorwa was published in Information, Communication & Society, with support from the Computational Propaganda Project. ABSTRACT: Following a host of high-profile scandals, the political influence of platform companies (the global corporations that that operate online ‘platforms’ such ...
The following paper was published by the NATO STRATCOM Centre of Excellence as a part of their series on 'Countering the Malicious Use of Social Media.' You can read the paper on their website here. Since 2016, at least 43 countries around the globe have ...
Twitter is a major platform for political communication and campaigning, used extensively by political parties, lobbying groups, and activists in many democratic debates around the world. It has proven to be vulnerable to traffic manipulation by small but coordinated user groups, and those who control ...
Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) launched an extended attack on the United States by using computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters. This report provides the first major analysis of this attack based on data provided by social media firms to the Senate Select ...
Concerns are growing about the polarization of the climate change debate. Despite broad consensus among scientists that climate change is both occurring and anthropogenic, a vocal movement expresses skepticism about the validity of the scientific consensus. In this data memo, we analyze the climate change ...
Abstract Lorem Ipsum Abstract Download the memo here. Authors. "Title." Data Memo 2018.6. Oxford, UK: Project on Computational Propaganda. comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk
We're announcing the launch of a new tool, designed to help journalists and the public keep track of online misinformation and hoaxes as they spread in real time. The Junk News Aggregator, created by Mimie Liotsiou, is an interactive tool for exploring junk news stories ...
In the United States, social media platforms serve significant volumes of junk political news and information during important moments in political life—particularly elections. In this data memo, we examine the sources of political news and information that were shared by social media users in the ...
We're very pleased to announce the publication of the project's first book, Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media, edited by Sam Woolley and Phil Howard. The book, which has been published by Oxford University Press' Digital Politics series (edited by Andrew Chadwick), ...
Abstract In Brazil, there are rising concerns over computational propaganda and the political polarization it may cause. In this data memo, we analyze data about political news and information shared over Twitter in the period leading up to the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. We find ...
