On Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories: study
A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.
Mar 8, 2018
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A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.
Mar 8, 2018
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Machine learning & AI
Visitors to a Ukrainian news website on the evening of February 18 2022, were greeted by a familiar sight, a video of their president giving a speech. While the resemblance was there, the face seemed slightly out of sync ...
Oct 29, 2023
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Time is of the essence as a deluge of updates spreads across the internet and social media feeds. Members of the public are eager to find information they can trust.
Jul 31, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Fake news and misinformation have become commonplace in the political, economic, climatic, and social arenas in recent years and are amplified significantly by social media with important repercussions for political outcomes ...
Jun 30, 2021
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Internet
Inaccurate information on social media has become a problem in many countries around the world. Researchers know a fair deal about "fake news" in the global North, but much less about what is happening in the global South, ...
May 26, 2021
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A research team from the universities of Jaén and Alicante has created an application that automatically analyzes news stories and determines their truthfulness with a high degree of accuracy. Although the model is still ...
May 11, 2021
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Internet
Social media is increasingly used to spread fake news. The same problem can be found on the capital market—criminals spread fake news about companies in order to manipulate share prices. Researchers at the Universities ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Internet
COVID-19 disinformation is more likely to be shared by younger people and those who use smaller social media channels, research shows.
Jun 4, 2020
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Internet
Google on Thursday said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and nonprofits as it ramps up its the battle against coronavirus misinformation.
Apr 2, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Dartmouth engineering researchers have developed a new approach for detecting a speaker's intent to mislead. The approach's framework, which could be developed to extract opinion from "fake news," among other uses, was recently ...
Nov 1, 2019
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