Group says misinformation on the rise on Facebook
An advocacy group tracking misinformation says it has found an increase in fake political news shared on Facebook ahead of the 2020 presidential elections.
Nov 6, 2019
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Plain language about health data is essential for transparency and trust
Ask any group of people if they have read and understood the last terms and conditions they agreed to, and you'll be lucky if anyone puts up their hand. This is not surprising given the estimate that it would take 76 work ...
Oct 10, 2019
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'Personalized DJ' music playlist algorithm matches songs to listeners' changing moods
Imagine having a disc jockey inside your computer who matches the music played to your current frame of mind. According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, machine learning can approximate that experience ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisers
Facebook said Monday it is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link.
Sep 16, 2019
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Researchers keeps wraps on automatic text generator to prevent misuse
Researchers this week announced they had developed an automatic text generator using artificial intelligence which is very good—so good, it is keeping details private for now.
Feb 16, 2019
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VeryMal: Campaign in image-based malware spotted
By this time, news stories have made words like bugs, viruses and malware familiar and by all means frequent, as computer users scramble to self-educate on how to avoid falling victim to a range of security invasions.
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Google launches AI-driven audio news feed
Google said Thursday it was launching a radio-style, on-demand audio news feed available on smart speakers, personalized with the help of artificial intelligence.
Dec 7, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human
An algorithm-based system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites like Google News with a new weapon in the fight against misinformation.
Aug 21, 2018
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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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How algorithms and human journalists will need to work together
Ever since the Associated Press automated the production and publication of quarterly earnings reports in 2014, algorithms that automatically generate news stories from structured, machine-readable data have been shaking ...
Sep 1, 2017
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