[Computational Propaganda] offers robust data-driven evidence around the degree to which social and political manipulation occurs over social media, in countries and contexts, as well as within communities in more mature liberal democracies.
Samuel C. Woolley is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin.
Philip N. Howard is Director and Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford.
They are the co-founders of the Computational Propaganda Project. This research endeavour is focused on the study of the manipulation of public opinion via online spaces. The project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.