Archives for Fake news

04 Jul

Digital India Act Expectations & Concerns 

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The draft of the Digital India Bill is set to undergo public consultation this month.  The need for a new regulatory landscape arises from India’s digital revolution—which has rendered the current regulation outdated. The existing IT Act has limitations in terms of recognising electronic records, transactions, and electronic signatures. While the internet, devices, and information […]

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10 Feb

5 Indian Startups Combating Fake News In 2021

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Social media play a huge part in the circulation of the latest news and information. On the flip side, the platforms are grappling with issues such as misinformation, fake news and controversies. Popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have mechanisms to curb the spread of fake news. However, the checks and balances have…

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23 Dec

Facebook Decides To Introduce News Summarisation Tool, What Could Go Wrong

Facebook has reportedly come up with an AI tool for news summarisation called TL;DR that will convert long news articles into small snippets. The name of the tool TL;DR stands for Too Long; Didn’t Read – an abbreviation commonly used on the internet to comment on articles that were too long to read. The aim…

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22 Jun

Hands-On Guide to Predict Fake News Using Logistic Regression, SVM and Naive Bayes Methods

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In this article, we will train the machine learning classifiers to predict whether given news is real news or fake news. For this task, we will train three popular classification algorithms - Logistics Regression, Support Vector Classifier and the Naive-Bayes to predict the fake news. After evaluating the performance of all three algorithms, we will conclude which among these three is the best in the task.

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