Oxford Internet Institute
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Boom in private companies offering disinformation-for-hire
- Media & Marketing
- January 13, 2021, 14:07
Politicians are increasingly hiring private companies to spread disinformation online, according to researchers who found campaigns run by third-party(...)

Who will tend to Facebook’s ‘digital graveyard’?
- Technology
- May 2, 2019, 07:55
In about 50 years the dead could outnumber the living on Facebook, according to estimates by scholars at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) who say t(...)

Screen time has little impact on teenagers’ mental health - study
- Irish News
- April 5, 2019, 15:33
The amount of time teenagers spend staring at screens has little impact on their mental health, according to a major Oxford University study involving(...)

Decision by tech giants to ban Irish abortion ads was ‘too little, too late’
- Technology
- October 18, 2018, 05:30
The decision by Google and Facebook to block abortion-related ads in the run-up to the last referendum in the Republic was “too little, too late,” acc(...)

Study casts doubt about Russian interference in Brexit referendum
- UK
- December 19, 2017, 09:48
An academic study set to be released on Tuesday casts doubt on speculation that Russia might have exploited social media to try to influence Britain’s(...)

‘Only EU can take a stand on privacy’
- Technology
- April 24, 2014, 01:05
Jan Philipp Albrecht is the European parliamentary politician most closely identified with the politics of the digital era. At a time when data(...)