Phil Howard

Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University

philip.howard@oii.ox.ac.uk

Is Social Media Killing Democracy?

This is the big year for computational propaganda—using immense data sets to manipulate public opinion over social media.  Both the Brexit referendum and US election have revealed the limits of modern democracy, and social media platforms are currently setting those limits.  Platforms like Twitter and Facebook now provide a structure for our political lives.  We’ve […]

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