A recent excellent article from The Guardian tackles Facebook’s promise to fight fake news. Facebook promised to tackle fake news. But the evidence shows it’s not working describes the social media giant’s inability to efficiently implement its fact checking system that relies on tagging news and prevent its spread, even if it relies on 3rd party organizations […]
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 […]
Since we’ve announced the launch of TrustServista – a unique tool that can determine the origin and trustworthiness of online news – we received a lot of useful feedback from industry experts. One of the recurring themes was the possibility to track fake news across the entire Internet, as when it becomes viral it can […]
When there is no option left, just blame the victim! This is the sad outcome of the recent “fake news scandal” which is far from over and far from having a resolution. Proving the fact that solving this issue is not a simple task, Google plans to remove its “In the news” section from the top […]
The fake news topic is increasing in importance nowadays, with more and more newspapers writing on it. Social media has taken on the battle of creating “fake news websites” lists, as if you could shoot a moving target with a paper plane! It is clear to me that this Internet-age issue is not fully understood […]
“Sure.” This was Sundar Puchai’s answer on a journalist’s question on whether fake news might have swung enough votes toward Donald Trump to change the election results. The CEO of Google made this very frank statement during an interview for the BBC and just adds up to the whole controversy of the influence of fake news […]
“Trump won because of Facebook”. A statement that has made the headlines in the last 24 hours on news outlets everywhere, from The Guardian to nymag.com:“The most obvious way in which Facebook enabled a Trump victory has been its inability (or refusal) to address the problem of hoax or fake news”. According to TechCrunch, the […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.