fake news

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post

Author
News

Date
January 14, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
fake news, Featured, Information, journalism, Retraction, retractions, Social Factors, social media, studies, truth}

Research Showing That Fake News Easily Fools Us Collapses

_{A recent paper claiming that low-quality news (“fake news”) spreads as quickly on social media as accurate news has been retracted by its authors.} _{News

January 14, 2019

Ethics, Social Factors}

A team from the Shanghai Institute of Technology sought to study whether accuracy made any difference to whether a post goes viral on social media. They cited a concern about “the digital misinformation that threatens our democracy.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
August 25, 2018

Tagged
fake news, mass manipulation}

AI tools for mass manipulation?

_{Machine learning can unleash a perfect storm of malice, experts warn} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 25, 2018}

In 2017, a group of 26 AI researchers got together at Oxford and created a report which offers a number of examples of malicious technologies of the near future. Read More ›