Press and Media Engagement
Select Research Features
Barry, Ellen. How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step. The New York Times.
Rawnsley, Jessica. A growing number of governments are spreading disinformation online. The Economist.
Murphy, Hannah and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan. Boom in private companies offering disinformation-for-hire. Financial Times.
Alba, Davey. So the Internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped. Where do we go from here? New York Times Magazine.
Alba, Davey and Adam Satariano. At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds. New York Times.
Dwoskin, Elizabeth and Gowen Annie. On WhatsApp, Fake News is Fast – and Can be Fatal. Washington Post.
Gordon, Greg. Fake, misleading social media posts exploding globally, Oxford study finds. McClatchy.
O’Sullivan, Donie Fake News Rife on Twitter During Election Week, Study from Oxford says. CNN Money.
Satariano, Adam. Government 'Cyber Troops' Manipulate Facebook, Twitter, Study Says. Bloomberg Technology.
Timberg, Craig. Spreading fake news becomes standard practice for governments across the world. The Washington Post.
Select Media Interviews
BBC World Service. Online Manipulation on a Global Scale. Digital Planet Podcast.
Future Tense. Technology-Intensive Campaigning and Computational Propaganda. ABC News.
Alba, Davey. Fake ‘Likes’ Remain Just a Few Dollars Away, Researchers Say. New York Times.
BBC The Inquiry. Can we Protect Elections from Social Media Manipulation? BBC Sounds.
Lytvynenko, Jane and Logan McDonald. Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Have been Removed from Facebook. Buzzfeed News.
Sardarizadeh, Shayan. Instagram fact-check: Can a new flagging tool stop fake news? BBC News.
Rogers, Kaleigh. How a real story turns into online disinformation. CBC News: The National.
Ameen, Furquan. Social Media’s Election Plan: Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp Want to Bring Transparency. The Telegraph India.
Gunter, Joel and Olga Robinson. Sergi Skipral and the Russian Disinformation Game. BBC News.
Dempsey, Steve. Real Solutions to Fake News? The Independent.
BBC World Service. What’s up with Whatsapp? BBC World Service Business Daily.
Bhattacharya, Ananya. Oxford researchers warn India of a fake-news epidemic as elections approach. Quartz India.
BBC World Service. Mexico’s Fake News Problem. BBC World Service.
Opinion Editorials & Public Writing
Samantha Bradshaw and Miles McCain. Lost In Translation: Language Gaps in Social Media Labels. Lawfare.
David Thiel and Samantha Bradshaw. Accessibility for Trust and Safety Flows. Stanford Internet Observatory.
Philip Howard and Samantha Bradshaw . China Joins the Global Disinformation Order. Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Samantha Bradshaw. Will Foreign Agents Rig the U.S. Midterm Elections Through Social Media? IEEE Spectrum Magazine.
Samantha Bradshaw. Data Protection Laws Must Extend to Political Parties. The Globe and Mail.
Samantha Bradshaw and Philip Howard. Three Reasons Junk News Spreads So Quickly Across Social Media. Medium: Trust, Media & Democracy.
Samantha Bradshaw and Philip Howard. Making Social Media Safe for Democracy. Project Syndicate.
Trolls, Bots and Fake News: What’s the Cost of Our Clicks? Al Jazeera English