Jean Seaton and I edited a special issue of ⁦Political Quarterly⁩ on the future of PSB with introductory essay by Mark Thompson. Thanks to so many thoughtful, distinguished contributors. ⁦Diane Coyle⁩ ⁦Richard Sambrook⁩ ⁦Martin Moore⁩ et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x/2…

🆕Fake and bot accounts on social media have the potential to cause significant political, economic, and social harms and should be subject to rigorous and independent audits 📱🤖

Read new research from Martin Moore here ⤵️

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As George Brock writes, if you’re a small news publisher and are interested in charity registration, please get in touch with the CJP pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analys…

There should be an International Observatory on Information and Democracy. Along with 100 researchers, I support the call from the Forum on Information & Democracy. Call and signatories at: informationdemocracy.org/2023/05/17/the…
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[New paper] 'There is a need for regular, independent, external audits of inauthentic accounts on #socialmedia .' Read more in our latest research article by Martin Moore #fakeaccounts policyreview.info/articles/analy…

*New* article by me just published Internet Policy Review: 'Fake accounts on social media, epistemic uncertainty and the need for an independent auditing of accounts' policyreview.info/articles/analy…

Willing suspensions of disbelief

New open access article by me and Martin Moore on how Chinese media covered the 2020 US #election & #Capitol riots. CGTN coverage very critical of the US, but we found little effort to influence the election. bit.ly/3RWjyUF War Studies LSW SANDHURST KCL Department of Political Economy

*New* journal article just published [open access] - by Thomas Colley and me - which looks at whether China used its state-sponsored media to influence the process or outcome of the 2020 US election tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Now Open Access - our research article contrasting Chinese and Russian international state propaganda models published by Journalism Practice & The J Word Podcast is now openly accessible Thomas Colley tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…