Selected Recent Media Coverage
[This is selected recent media coverage of my research. For articles and op-eds I’ve written for media, see the Articles section.]
2024: ‘Are Tories Deliberately Posting Terrible Social Media?’ PoliticsHome, April 11.
2024: ‘Commander In Truth: Why Donald Trump is staying faithful to Truth Social’ The House (Parliament’s in-house magazine), March 26.
2023: ‘Indian TV, “hashtag” audience fragmentation.’ The Hindu, April 12.
2022: ‘Synthetic video: don’t call them deepfakes.’ Institution of Engineering & Technology Magazine, November 8.
2022: ‘Elon Musk putting Twitter behind a paywall could ‘sound the death knell’ for the social media platform, experts say.’ Fortune, November 8.
2022: ‘Challenging Covid Vaccine Misinformation on Private Social Media, with Prof. Andrew Chadwick.’ Social Media and Politics Podcast #143, May 1. [Apple Podcasts.] [Spotify.]
2022: ‘Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups.’ Nieman Lab, April 27.
2022: ‘If someone shares your politics, you’re less likely to block them when they post misinformation.’ Nieman Lab, March 23.
2022: ‘How Ukraine’s President Zelensky Caught the World’s Attention.’ Wall Street Journal, March 9.
2021: ‘Why Nobody Should Take Up Donald Trump's Election Debate Offer.’ Newsweek, December 1.
2021: ‘Donald Trump Is Disappearing From Our Conversations.’ Newsweek, August 9
2021: ‘Vaccine messaging may need to change.’ Telegraph, May 13.
2021: ‘Emphasis on personal may be best way to fight vaccine scepticism, research suggests.’ The Guardian, May 13.
2021: ‘Joe Biden the Boring Radical Quietly Outshines Donald Trump the Predictable Showman.’ Newsweek, April 30.
2021: ‘Troubling link between vaccine hesitancy and intent to discourage others – study.’ ITV News, April 2. This research was also covered by more than 200 news outlets across the UK and internationally.
2021: ‘Donald Trump's Social Media Platform Can't Replace What He Lost With Twitter, Facebook.’ Newsweek, March 22.
2021: ‘Taking on the Anti-Vax Movement.’ Campaign, February 9.
2020: ‘Altruism, cash, coercion, and the queen. How the UK could convince millions to get coronavirus vaccines.’ Washington Post, December 17.
2020: ‘More Than a Quarter of British Hesitant About Getting COVID Vaccine, Study Finds’ Newsweek, December 11.
2020: ‘How Campaigns Use Digital Tactics for Good and Bad.’ Lifewire, October 20.
2020: ‘Donald Trump's Coronavirus misinformation is stopping tech companies from enforcing their moderation rules.’ The i, May 1.
2020: ‘Trump is adapting his populist playbook to the coronavirus crisis.’ Business Insider, April 21.
2019: ‘Is Russia Meddling in the UK Election? Perhaps—But the Real Problem May be Gullible Voters.’ Newsweek, December 12.
2019: ‘The dirtiest UK election ever? Here are some of the lowest moments of the campaign.’ CNN, December 10.
2019: ‘The Not-so-simple Science of Social Media ‘Bots.’ First Draft, November 28.
2019: ‘Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Is Winning the U.K. Election Digital War.’ Bloomberg, November 22.
2019: ‘What’s really behind the Tories’ ‘deceitful’ Twitter fact check ploy—and did it actually work?’ Telegraph, November 21.
2019: ‘How Leave.EU dominates the Brexit conversation on Facebook.’ First Draft, November 21.
2019: ‘Researchers concerned as tech giants choke off access to data.’ Times Higher, October 23.
2019: ‘“They’re doing this badly on purpose”: Why the Tories’ latest online ads look so ugly.’ New Statesman, October 23.
2019: O3C report on sharing of false and misleading news on UK social media covered by The Times (print edition), The Scotsman (print edition), The Independent, numerous regional newspapers, and 180 UK local radio stations. May 11.
