Here are the books, scholarly articles, conference papers, and public writing from our team.
Iranian interference in the politics of Arab countries has become more self-evident since the Arab Spring of 2011. Iran has been trying to widen its influence in the region in a political confrontation with Saudi Arabia. In October 2018, Twitter released 770 accounts with potential ...
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between technology, democracy and the polarisation of public discourse. Technology is inherently political, and the ways in which it is designed and used have ongoing implications for participation, deliberation, and democracy. Algorithms, automation, big data analytics ...
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 ...
