Jon Roozenbeek

Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Starting Grants

03 Sep 2026

Three researchers from the University of Cambridge have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council, to support early-career...

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms

11 Dec 2025

The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by...

The Trump assassination attempt on the front page of German newspaper Bild.

Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity

26 Aug 2025

Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’.

Solidarity drives online virality in a nation under attack, study of Ukrainian social media reveals

01 Oct 2024

While divisive social media posts get more traction in countries such as the US, a new study shows that celebrating national unity is the way to go...

How to 'inoculate' millions against misinformation on social media

24 Aug 2022

Briefly exposing social media users to tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of dangerous online falsehoods – even amid intense ‘noise’ of...

Opinion: The failure of Russian propaganda

03 May 2022

Russia's years-long information war has failed to build support among Russian-speaking Ukrainians, especially in Donbas, argues Dr Jon Roozenbeek.

Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda

03 May 2022

A study of the propaganda that flooded Donbas for years reveals a failure to build pro-Russian 'in-group' identities in the region, despite Putin’s...

Screen shots of Go Viral! on the left, and an example of UNESCO's #ThinkBeforeSharing campaign on the right.

‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods, study finds

12 May 2021

Latest research on digital interventions deployed by UK government and UNESCO suggests that exposing people to a “microdose” of techniques used by...

Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy

06 Nov 2020

A short online game in which players are recruited as a 'Chief Disinformation Officer' and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a...

Jon Roozenbeek

Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Starting Grants

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms

Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity

Solidarity drives online virality in a nation under attack, study of Ukrainian social media reveals

How to 'inoculate' millions against misinformation on social media

Opinion: The failure of Russian propaganda

Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda

‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods, study finds

Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy

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