Our team of social and information scientists investigate the impact of bots and automation on social media.
Each case study analyzes qualitative, quantitative, and computational evidence from Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.
Professor Philip Howard's latest book offers new insights into the world's most damaging disinformation campaigns.
Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life. Our goal is to use rigorous social science and computational methods to increase civic engagement and promote democratic values.
We use qualitative, comparative, quantitative and computational methods, and often work with academics, journalists, independent investigators, and policy makers to identify new problems and craft new research questions.
We work with many kinds of data, do international fieldwork, and engage in “real-time” social and information science, actively disseminating our findings to journalists, industry, policy makers, and the interested public.
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