CBC: How Politicians Use Bots to Manipulate the Public
The CBC radio show Spark did an episode about the political bots project. Phil Howard studies political bots — social media accounts designed to influence public opinion — and the coders and...
View ArticlePrezi: About the COMPROP Project
Here is an interactive Prezi describing the goals, work plan and initial findings of the Computational Propaganda Research Project.
View ArticlePrezi: Creating Lasting Relationships Among Computer and Social Scientists
Here is an interactive Prezi about how the special collaborations within our project are going. We are tackling some important research questions, but doing so as a parity-based team of computer and...
View ArticlePrezi: Confronting Political Bot Attacks – Guidelines for Civil Society Leaders
Governments, militaries, and lone attackers increasingly use bots to attack civil society groups. How should such groups prepare and respond?
View ArticleA $1 Million Fight Against Hillary Clinton’s Online Trolls
Helped with a story on the Atlantic about Hillary Clinton’s response to online trolling. “A lot of digital campaign strategy is experimental and run for fear of losing,” Phil Howard, a professor at the...
View ArticleBots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU...
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerIn-Brexit conversation happening over Twitter. These automated scripts generate content...
View ArticleThese ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote
Our paper on Brexit Bots was featured in “These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote” on CNBC: Automated social media accounts are being used by both sides in the Brexit debate, a new report shows, with...
View ArticleBeware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote
Our work on Brexit Bots was featured in “Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote” on the website for the New Scientist: Watch out for the ballot bots. As the UK’s referendum on...
View ArticleVideo: Ten things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do...
In this talk, Prof Phil Howard explains how we are targeted and manipulated by social media and bots trying to influence voter behaviour. Since 2012, Professor Howard and team have been investigating...
View Article10 Things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)
In March 2017, I spoke spoke at an event hosted by the University’s Social Science Division to highlight projects across Oxford that are receiving ERC funding. Professor Roger Goodman, Head of the...
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