Two years after the huge fake news scandal surrounding the 2016 US Presidential Elections, the readers’ trust in news is still a hot topic, according to the 2018 Digital News Report released by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. One of the #dnr2018 reports key findings is that the average level of trust in […]
The TrustServista Text Analysis and News Analytics API packages are now available on RapidAPI, the world’s largest API marketplace where over half a million developers find and connect to thousands of public APIs. RapidAPI allows developers to build apps faster by integrating over 8,000 APIs into its marketplace, allowing the management of API integrations from one place […]
With the latest TrustServista 2.0 release we introduced a couple of news API endpoints, such as Statistics and Classification, reaching a new milestone in the research and development of our text and news analytics capabilities. Why is automated content classification using the IPTC Newscodes and IAB v2 taxonomies is an important tool for every media […]
Email spam and fake news are really not that different. Unsolicited bulk email with the goal to promote services or products mostly relies on “baiting” techniques to get the recipient “hooked” and covert it to a paying customer. Just like fake news. But email spam rarely has any success nowadays due to the efficient automated […]
Happy New Year! Just as December 2017 was coming to and end, Facebook announced that it will ditch the “disputed” news tag implemented earlier this year in an effort to fight fake news distribution. In yet another change of mind, Facebook will replace this fake news fighting mechanism with a “related stories” functionality aimed at showing the […]
It’s not parody unless it’s funny. At least this was one of the rules that differentiated between a hoax site and a fake news site. Until now… The right-wing/politically incorrect/satire group/author “Age of Shitlords” which runs the https://ageofshitlords.com/ website and Facebook page just announced that it is shutting down the feminist magazine titled Medusa Magazine, which […]
The International Trade Association for Broadcast & Media Technology (IABM, www.theiabm.org), the world’s largest media technology organization, has selected TrustServista (www.trustservista.com) to participate in the 2018 Dragon’s Den competition for media innovation. The Romanian software startup Zetta Cloud (www.zettacloud.ro), the company that owns and develops TrustServista, will have the opportunity to compete with two other […]
The American rock icon who made music history together with The Hearbreakers, Tom Petty, passed away on October 2nd after found unconscious at his home in Malibu, California. The beloved rock star’s death was mentioned by most US and international news agencies, newspapers and blogs. TrustServista automatically analyzed the story in order to reveal hidden […]
As TrustServista is becoming more and more proficient at detecting fake news that is generated by professional online scammers or politically-biased groups, one are of mass misinformation is still posing problems not only to automated AI-engines, but also to most skilled human analysts and investigators: geopolitical propaganda. While fake news generally follows a series of […]
As part of our TrustServista version 1.0 release scheduled for the 20th of June, we are introducing a unique algorithm for clickbait detection. And as we are in the middle of benchmarking the algorithm against statistically representative articles, we want to offer you a peak preview of our clickbait score calculated against recent high-trending articles. […]
