Internet
In this era of conflicting ideologies, fake news about climate change—especially on Facebook—can embolden those who remain unconvinced that it's a threat and can easily influence people who only casually follow the issue.
Aug 20, 2019
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There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world including Brazil and India.
Jul 29, 2019
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Social media can expose users to misinformation, including fake news—news stories with intentionally false information. In fact, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, fake news engaged more people than real news, ...
Jul 18, 2019
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As uncannily realistic "deep fake" videos proliferate online, including one recently retweeted by Donald Trump, journalism schools are scrambling to adapt to an era of misinformation—or fake news.
Jul 16, 2019
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An online game in which people play the role of propaganda producers to help them identify real world disinformation has been shown to increase "psychological resistance" to fake news, according to a study of 15,000 participants.
Jun 25, 2019
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Machine Learning & AI
Those who worry about artificial intelligence being so good it spins out of control into making humans robo-victims of cooked lies posing as truth had best ignore the recent study which is sure to disturb their sleep. The ...
Jun 10, 2019 weblog
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A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him.
Apr 18, 2019
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Internet
Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity.
Mar 04, 2019
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Facebook says it has 'taken steps' to reduce fake health news, anti-vaxx posts amid measles outbreak
Feb 18, 2019
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Internet
A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook "digital gangsters" who failed to fight the spread of fake news and violated data privacy.
Feb 18, 2019
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Internet
Recent research from the US shows that baby boomers or people over 65 years old with conservative political views are more likely than other age groups to share fake news through social media.
Feb 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
New work from MIT researchers peers under the hood of an automated fake-news detection system, revealing how machine-learning models catch subtle but consistent differences in the language of factual and false stories. The ...
Feb 04, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at the State University of New York in Korea have recently explored new ways to detect both machine and human-created fake images of faces. In their paper, published in ACM Digital Library, the researchers used ...
Oct 29, 2018 feature
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Internet
The messaging service WhatsApp says it has sent "cease and desist" letters to stop companies from sending bulk messages related to Brazil's election and banned their accounts.
Oct 19, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Lately the fact-checking world has been in a bit of a crisis. Sites like Politifact and Snopes have traditionally focused on specific claims, which is admirable but tedious—by the time they've gotten through verifying or ...
Oct 04, 2018
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