Caio Machado

Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Specialization: Computational propaganda, misinformation on messaging platforms, political communication during elections.

Key works

• A Study of Misinformation in WhatsApp groups with a focus on the Brazilian Presidential Elections (with Kira, Narayanan, Kollanyi, Howard) — empirical study of 130 public WhatsApp groups during 2018 Brazilian election; develops typology for classifying junk news and polarizing content; finds 13.1% of links point to junk sources, 40% to YouTube; documents heavy use of visual media for propaganda.