These are my notes about computational propaganda from 2017:
Philip Howard (Principal Investigator)
ComProp: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/the-team/research/philip-n-howard
Personal: http://philhoward.org
Middle East Studies, Henry M. Jackson School, University of Washington: https://jsis.washington.edu/mideast/people/philip-howard
Department of Communication, University of Washington: http://www.com.washington.edu/howard
Information School, University of Washington: https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/pnhoward
Tweet (re dashboard.securingdemocracy.org): https://twitter.com/pnhoward/status/894798440349257730
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809175923/https://twitter.com/pnhoward/status/894798440349257730
Nick Monaco
ComProp: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/the-team/collaborators/nick-monaco
Google Jigsaw (no profile): https://jigsaw.google.com
Interview (August 5, 2017): http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/science/we-the-bots-and-trolls/5761
Filippo Menczer
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Menczer
Started Observatory on Social Media: http://osome.iuni.iu.edu
Created Hoaxy: http://hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu
Interview: http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Professor-Once-Targeted-by/238742
We let people search through claims that could come through any number of websites that often post misinformation,
as well as fact-checking sites...
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809194739/http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Professor-Once-Targeted-by/238742
BotOrNot
URL: http://botornot.co
Registered to: Svyatoslav Litynskyy, Lviv, Ukraine (Chief Operations Officer, Co-owner, ABTO Software)
ABTO Software: https://www.abtosoftware.com/products/bot-or-not-tool-for-twitter-accounts-audit
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809171621/https://www.abtosoftware.com/products/bot-or-not-tool-for-twitter-accounts-audit
Wikipedia (BotOrNot is now Botometer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bot#Detection
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809181247/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bot
Botometer
URL: http://botometer.org
Redirects: https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu (Indiana University Network Science Institute)
Email: truthyatindiana@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Botometer
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809184508/https://twitter.com/Botometer
Hoaxy
URL: http://hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu
Backend architecture: https://github.com/IUNetSci/hoaxy-backend/blob/master/hoaxy/data/manuals/architecture.pdf
maintains a domains list to trawl, separated into claims (sites they don't like) / fact-checking (sites they do like)
Claims (not necessarily up to date): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5eDzOUEByRcHSwSNmSqjQMpaKcKXmUzYT6YlRy3UOg/edit#gid=1882442466
Alliance for Securing Democracy
URL: http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org
Team: http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/team/advisory-council
Mike Chertoff (co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
William Kristol (neoconservative political analyst and commentator): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol
Dashboard: http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
Data & Society: https://datasociety.net
there doesn't seem to be anything here