A Working Definition of Fake News

The Economics of "Fake News"

Automatic Detection of Fake News

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for computational tools able to provide insights into the reliability of online content. In this paper, we focus on the automatic identification of fake content in online...

Fake News in Social Networks

We model the spread of news as a social learning game on a network. Agents can either endorse or oppose a claim made in a piece of news, which itself may be either true or false. Agents base their decision on a private signal and their neighbors’ past actions. Given these inputs, agents follow strategies derived via multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and receive utility from acting in acco...

Fake news threatens a climate literate world

T he year 2015 may be regarded as the most environmentally significant year in history: the Paris agreement on climate change and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development are two unprecedented international agreements that together provide a roadmap to achieve a low-carbon, climate-resilient world and to eradicate global poverty. However, given the implementation of these agreements is large...

News Feature: The genuine problem of fake news.

In 2010 computer scientist Filippo Menczer heard a conference talk about some phony news reports that had gone viral during a special Senate election in Massachusetts. “I was struck,” saysMenczer. He and his team at IndianaUniversity Bloomington had been tracking early forms of spam since 2005, looking mainly at then-new social bookmarking sites such as https://del. icio.us/. “We called it soci...