Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Researchers Are Building a Lie Detector For Twitter

From Mashable

Twitter is great for disseminating information quickly to millions. It's also great for disseminating misinformation. Now a team of European researchers is working to make the Twittersphere more reliable — by identifying lies before they go viral.


This seemingly impossible task will be accomplished by software called Pheme, a program intended to identify Twitter rumors in times of crisis.


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Pheme will be able to identify false information by looking at the news source, the conversations tha .. Read More



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