Sentences with phrase «fake news articles»

Yet, rather than digital footprints, the authors mostly relied on self - reported persuasion and recall of 15 selected fake news articles.

Some participants were first asked to read fake news articles about memory loss in older adults, and others did not.

But as Lewis» samples show, the scammers are circumventing this prohibition with ease — using Lewis» image to drive unwitting clicks to a secondary offsite layer of fake news articles that directly push people towards crypto scams.

This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, and Dieter give an overview of these products along with the topic of the week (or the month, or maybe the year): the problem of social media dealing with fake news articles that go viral.

The political profiles formed by gleaning Facebook user information would target them with intentionally fake news articles and advertisements.

Apparently the ad revenue from fake news articles posted on Facebook was enough to make a decent income in Macedonia.

One of the first studies on fake news exposure combined a fake news database of 156 articles with a national survey of Americans, and estimated that the average adult was exposed to just one or a few fake news articles before the election.

Stephen Woerner, a computer science senior, is on one of the teams charged with creating a system that detects fake news articles.

The WVU Reed College of Media, in collaboration with computer science students and faculty at the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, is hosting an artificial intelligence (AI) course at its Media Innovation Center that includes two projects focused on using AI to detect and combat fake news articles.

Facebook launched a similar experiment in which it added context from fact checkers to known fake news articles.

She even unfollowed one of them whom she says scans headlines of fake news articles and shares them without reading them — the more sensational the better.

According to the Times, many of the fake news articles are about politicians who could pose the biggest threat to Russia.

The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.