AUSTIN, Texas — We hear a lot about fake news, but do we know it when we see it? Research from The University of Texas at Austin has found that although
Source: Effective New Tool Created for Discerning Fake News – UT News
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Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw – The New York Times
The company, owned by Google’s parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
Source: Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw – The New York Times
Οι διάσημοι με τους περισσότερους ψεύτικους λογαριασμούς στο Instagram | ενότητες, lifestyle | Real.gr
Η Κιμ Καρντάσιαν έχει έναν από τους πιο δημοφιλείς λογαριασμούς του Instagram με περισσότερους από 145 εκατομμύρια ακόλουθους – από τους οποίους 40% δεν υπάρχει.
Army fights fake news with propagandists and hackers in one unit | Technology | The Guardian
Cyber and intelligence experts unite to battle disinformation as character of warfare changes
Source: Army fights fake news with propagandists and hackers in one unit | Technology | The Guardian
Ο Ιταλός φαρσέρ «χτύπησε» στο twitter του Π. Πικραμμένου γράφοντας ότι απεβίωσε ο Κάρολος Παπούλιας | ενότητες, κοινωνία | Real.gr
Ο Ιταλός δημοσιογράφος και φαρσέρ Tommasso Debenedetti, ο οποίος συνηθίζει να ‘πεθαίνει’ μεγάλες προσωπικότητες της πολιτικής και όχι μόνο, ‘χτύπησε’ ξανά.
The AI That Can Write a Fake News Story From a Handful of Words – Bloomberg
OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research group co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has demonstrated a piece of software that can produce authentic-looking fake news articles after being given just a few pieces of information.
Source: The AI That Can Write a Fake News Story From a Handful of Words – Bloomberg
Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes – The New York Times
After raising $6 million, the start-up NewsGuard, co-founded by Steve Brill, has signed Microsoft as its first major client. The main goal: to combat the spread of false stories on the internet.
Source: Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes – The New York Times
Software that can automatically detect fake news
Invented stories, distorted facts: fake news is spreading like wildfire on the internet and is often shared on without thought, particularly on social media. In response, Fraunhofer researchers have developed a system that automatically analyzes social media posts, deliberately filtering out fake news and disinformation. To do this, the tool analyzes both content and metadata, classifying it using machine learning techniques and drawing on user interaction to optimize the results as it goes.
On Twitter, limited number of characters spreading fake info
WASHINGTON (AP) — A tiny fraction of Twitter users spread the vast majority of fake news in 2016, with conservatives and older people sharing misinformation more, a new study finds. Scientists examined more than 16,000 U.S. Twitter accounts and found that 16 of them — less than one-tenth of 1 percent — tweeted out nearly 80 percent of the misinformation masquerading as news, according to a study Thursday in the journal Science . About 99 percent of the Twitter users spread virtually no fake information in the most heated part of the election year, said study co-author David Lazer, a Northeastern University political and computer science professor.
Source: On Twitter, limited number of characters spreading fake info
