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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 17 2019, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-me-think-about-it-a-bit dept.

Fake news has already fanned the flames of distrust towards media, politics and established institutions around the world. And while new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) might make things even worse, it can also be used to combat misinformation.

A fake story might, for example, make the claim that a very high percentage of crimes in a European country are committed by foreign immigrants. In theory that might be an easy claim to disprove because of large troves of available open data, yet journalists waste valuable time in finding that data. So Fandango’s tool links all kinds of European open data sources together, and bundles and visualises it. Journalists can use, for example, pooled together national data to address claims about crimes or apply data from the European Copernicus satellites to climate change debates.

Essentially, previous studies show that fake news stories are shared online in different ways from real news stories, says Prof. Bronstein. Fake news might have far more shares than likes on Facebook, while regular posts tend to have more likes than they have shares. By spotting patterns like these, GoodNews attaches a credibility score to a news item.

The GoodNews team hopes to monetise this service through a start-up called Fabula AI, based in London. While they hope to roll out the product at the end of the year, they envisage having customers such as large media companies like Facebook and Twitter, but also individual users.

Can artificial intelligence help end fake news?

[More Info]:
Fandango
GoodNews

Do you think that AI is a solution to the fake news problem ??


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:45PM (#831400)

    The political shitshow you plebs know is corrupt is also responsible for funding academia, which is also corrupt due to the education boards "I want a nation of [obedient] workers, not a nation of thinkers". Therefore most science is bogus. [wikipedia.org] For instance, most data claimed to be from "HUBBLE" is actually data from SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy [usra.edu] - A telescope on a high altitude plane which has BETTER instrumentation than "Hubble", is more serviceable and cheaper... So this is an example of "Fake News" Hubble doesn't exist anymore, but the public knows the "Hubble" name, it has name recognition... and so those "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" idiots will just repeat the fake news without questioning anything at all.

    This is just one example. Any time the news reports on something you're intimately familiar with you can see it's bullshit and wrong, but you click the next link and see a news story about something you're not familiar with and you assume it's not just as bullshit as the other story that was BS. No. Stop it. It's ALL BULLSHIT.

    QED = Question Everything Damnit! This realm is not as it has been presented to you.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:58PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:58PM (#831410) Journal

    QED = Question Everything Damnit!

    Wow! That's some plausible fake news there! But evidently you are not familiar with logic or Latin? QED= "quot erat demonstrandum". Just because you should question everything does not imply that everything is fake news, your reasoning is in error, and stupid.