How do you get thousands of people to read and distribute your fake news article online in less than 10 hours? You post it on Facebook, of course. TrustServista is currently processing close to 1000 American websites that are considered political partisan or with low trustworthiness. Our unique algorithms for detecting the trustworthiness and origin […]
It is no secret that news travels around the world, crossing borders and languages in order to reach its audience. That’s why one important aspect of any digital news analysis or investigation is making sure that language does not become a barrier, but rather a facilitator. As we are preparing for our TrustServista version 1.0 […]
One of today’s trending stories puts the spotlight on Facebook’s methodology to handle content related to sex, terrorism and violence. The story focuses on a recent article from The Guardian titled Facebook moderators: a quick guide to their job and its challenges, part of the “Facebook Files” series that relies on leaked information regarding Facebook’s secret rules […]
The leader of UK’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has been recently accused of links to the IRA (Irish Republican Army) with The Telegraph stating that he has been arrested in the past at IRA-linked protests and that he refused to publicly condemn Irish terrorist organization. An analysis of the story using TrustServista shows that The Telegraph […]
“Damning Hillary Clinton Footage Leaks – The Truth is Out” may indicate another right wing fake news story that is set out to viralize quickly and be used as political propaganda. And this is partly true, especially when the post is published by TruthMonitor.com an obviously right-wing propaganda website that is known to spread fake […]
The Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune published a story on May 15th regarding the abduction for ransom of 15 Pakistanis heading to Germany: 15 Pakistanis heading to Europe held for ransom in Romania. The information has been proven to be false. The Express Tribune was using information from an organization called Swat Press Club located in Swat valley […]
One of TrustServista’s key principle in detecting misinformation on the web is that each story and each article should be intelligently handled on its own, without making use of predefined “fake news websites” lists, that have the potential of being biased of having no long term relevance. One recent example is when we stumbled upon […]
In a not-at-all-surprising move President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on May 10th, the announcement being brokered directly on television. The dismissal of Comey comes in the context of an ongoing FBI investigation into Trump’s campaign team collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign, but also in connection to past FBI investigation into […]
On April 20th 2017 several US news publications reported the US Government is preparing charges for the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. However, this information did not come from (or was confirmed by) a named US official or institution. Leveraging statements from the CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the Attorney General Jeff Sessions on […]
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