Curated Resource ( ? )
Misinformation on social media: Can technology save us?
Curated:
28/11/2016 from
theconversation.com/misinformation-on-social-media-can-technology-save-us-69264?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
my notes ( ? )
my research team’s analysis of data from Columbia University’s Emergent rumor tracker suggests that this misinformation is just as likely to go viral as reliable information... limiting news fakers’ ability to sell ads... a step in the right direction. But it will not curb abuses driven by political motives...
Using BotOrNot, our colleagues found that a large portion of online chatter about the 2016 elections was generated by bots...
algorithmic bias toward engagement over truth reinforces our social and cognitive biases... when we follow links shared on social media, we tend to visit a smaller, more homogeneous set of sources than when we conduct a search and visit the top results... our lab is building a platform called Hoaxy to track and visualize the spread of unverified claims and corresponding fact-checking on social media
Using BotOrNot, our colleagues found that a large portion of online chatter about the 2016 elections was generated by bots...
algorithmic bias toward engagement over truth reinforces our social and cognitive biases... when we follow links shared on social media, we tend to visit a smaller, more homogeneous set of sources than when we conduct a search and visit the top results... our lab is building a platform called Hoaxy to track and visualize the spread of unverified claims and corresponding fact-checking on social media
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