Vidya Narayanan

Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Specialization: Computational propaganda, junk news detection, social media analysis, content typology development.

Key works

• A Study of Misinformation in WhatsApp groups with a focus on the Brazilian Presidential Elections (with Machado, Kira, Kollanyi, Howard) — empirical study of WhatsApp misinformation during 2018 Brazilian elections; develops grounded typology for classifying news sources and polarizing content; analyzes cross-platform link-sharing strategies.