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The last couple of years had been turbulent for Twitter. Users have accused Twitter for showing double standards by banning an individual based on the reports of the rival faction. However, Twitter has been risking its reputations and rolling new features that will cut down misinformation while giving its users more control over conversations. Twitter…
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The role of fake news has had violent outcomes in the past and continues to do so. Especially today, amid a pandemic, social media platforms are being used to dish out misinformation at lightning speed. One thing we can do is to avoid news altogether or use tools such as those of machine learning to…
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Researchers from Microsoft, along with a team from Arizona State University, have published a work that has outperformed the current state-of-the-art models that detect fake news. Though the prevalence and promotion of misinformation have been since time immemorial, today, thanks to the convenience for access provided by the internet, fake news is rampant and has…
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As the news of COVID-19 hit the shores of the west, the tech companies were quick to take necessary precautions by asking their employees to work from home. And, since the content moderators who flag a tweet or image for its nature, have been asked to stay at home, all major social media companies have…
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At MLDS 2020, Vinodhini Ranganathan, Data Scientist at Cisco highlighted the challenges in identifying fake reviews and the various technologies which can be used to get rid of them. She also suggests a general framework for identifying fake reviews on web platforms. “In God we trust, all others bring data,” W. Edwards Deming said a…
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Fake news can be used for social media campaigns with an aim to disseminate propaganda. The issue has intensified in the last five years as digital journalism has gathered strength. Experts have identified the issue of fake news as a big challenge due to their high distribution and consumption rate on social media. Companies like…
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One of the biggest threat that is challenging democracies across the world is the issue of fake news. With the advent of social media, spreading of misinformation has become a pervasive problem, which has resulted in the toppling of governments, changing the course of the election and even killing of innocent people. However, with the…
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One of the biggest threat that is challenging democracies across the world is the issue of fake news. With the advent of social media, spreading of misinformation has become a pervasive problem, which has resulted in the toppling of governments, changing the course of the election and even killing of innocent people. However, with the…
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Over the weekend, Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence research company OpenAI published findings about their latest language model. In a deviation from their open source philosophy, OpenAI decided not to open source this specific model. While multiple news outlets cried foul at the amount of automated fake news that can be created using this model, OpenAI’s…
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Recently, IBM’s Project Debater debuted on the big stage during an intense face-off against a former European debating champion. The Debater is a collection of AI functions managed by IBM, and is the culmination of around 30 published papers in the linguistic and data science field. The model facilitates ‘intelligent’ debate by digesting a large…
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