Where is the Internet Headed? Solana Larsen, LSE Business Review Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Over the past few months, you’ve almost certainly heard someone lament the state of the internet. It might have been a friend or family member, who learned the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica breach was...
How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – and Create – Fake News Anjana Susarla, The Conversation News, Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...
Attention Economics and Fake News Vincent F. Hendricks Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics The author presented the following lecture at the recent the annual celebration of The University of Copenhagen. World Economic Forum recently declared misinformation and digital wildfires as some of the...
Tool Called “Hoaxy” Fact-Checks Fake News Kevin Fryling Arts & Culture A new tool called Hoaxy lets you search for terms and articles, and shows you how claims spread on Twitter as well as efforts to fact-check them. “In the past year, the influence of fake news in the US...
