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Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

ConferencesDeep LearningModelingCOVID 19East 2021Fake Newsposted by ODSC Community February 23, 2021

If you’re familiar with conspiracy theories regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Barack Obama’s birthplace, or Hillary Clinton’s ties to “Pizzagate”, you’ve experienced only a fraction of contemporary disinformation. With the rise of social media and its capacity for viral posts and fake news, disinformation campaigns have become a common... Read more
AI and the Fight against Fake News & Fake Stats

AI and the Fight against Fake News & Fake Stats

Blogs from ODSC SpeakersBusiness + ManagementConferencesEast 2021Fake Newsposted by ODSC Community February 15, 2021

One of the biggest challenges facing society today is the proliferation of fake news and fake stats. It is relatively easy, today, to come up with statistics and charts that can bolster dubious claims. But, it is much more difficult to counter such claims. And it... Read more
Using AI to Combat Deepfakes and Fake News

Using AI to Combat Deepfakes and Fake News

Data Science for GoodModelingdeepfakesFake Newsposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 4, 2019

AI is constantly in the news these days, identifying prospects for the technology doing both good and bad. One topic that’s generating a lot of buzz is the use of AI for creating “deepfakes,” a term originally coined in 2017. Deepfakes uses neural networks to combine... Read more
Deep Learning Finds Fake News with 97% Accuracy

Deep Learning Finds Fake News with 97% Accuracy

Deep LearningModelingDeep LearningFake Newsposted by Lutz Hamel January 10, 2019

In his article published on opendatascience.com in 2017, George McIntire describes an experiment building a “fake news” classifier using a document-vector model and Naive Bayes approach. He reports an 88% accuracy when classifying a “fake news” dataset which he assembled from various sources. This of course immediately made me wonder if... Read more
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