Russia appears to be continuing its march towards replicating China's "Great Firewall" and creating its own, independent Internet by passing two controversial ...
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WhatsApp to combat “fake news” with reverse image search
2018 saw WhatsApp significantly step up their efforts to combat the spread of "fake news" on their app. The app now tells users if a message is "forwarded" and ...
MIT scientists create new deep learning model that aims to identify fake news
Ever wonder how those fake news-detecting algorithms actually work? What, exactly, do they look for and how do they determine the context of a news story in ...
Somehow Facebook continues to grow, despite constant scandal
Facebook announced their quarterly earnings on Wednesday. The tech giant has been drenched in scandals that show no signs of slowing down. Their latest squabble ...
Facebook removes accounts linked to Russian-owned news agency
Facebook has labeled hundreds of pages linked to Russia as perpetrators of false news. Facebook claimed yesterday that the Russian Sputnik news agency was ...
WhatsApp becomes the source for spreading misinformation in Nigeria
Africa’s most populous countries are facing the fake-news storm just like India and Brazil. WhatsApp fake news has taken over Nigeria just around the corner of ...
Junk News; Not all NEWS on the Internet is believable
Researchers in Oxford have worked on the dilemma of the internet playing a role in 'junk news.' Their research focuses its hypotheses, statistical analyses, and ...
