Everyone, from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to the roadside political henchman today knows about fake news. This is the news that does not exist but has been cooked up to influence and provoke people into action. Images, videos and texts are morphed and created to give...
Fake newsSocial mediaPeople are increasingly consuming news curated by machine learning (ML) systems. Motivated by studies on algorithmic bias, this paper explores which recommendations of an algorithmic news curation system users trust and how this trust is affected by untrustworthy news stories like...
How does that match (or not match) your personality type? The Media, Conspiracy Theories, and Fake News They say, at a party, one should never discuss religion or politics. We, however, are bravely tackling both in our mission to uncover as much as we can about skepticism and belief. ...
Does political ideology affect economic growth? How do interest groups influence government? How do political parties help unify the American people? How does government affect culture? How does sociology shape public policy? How does fake news impact political behavior?
While the model has clear limitations, it does provide one interpretation of how fake news spreads. "Traditionally it is believed that truth has some inherent power to overcome false," saysHaluk Bingol, a computer engineer at Boğaziçi University in Turkey who has long studied online networks...
Does Not Compute The IPCC used computer models to simulate climate change and discovered that only models that included human contributions to global warming portrayed an accurate representation of today's climate. When the models did not include such considerations, the climates they simulated did not...
Ping is a useful tool for online gaming because it measures latency, and latency can directly affect how an online game behaves during real-time play. Low latency has less delay between a player's action, like moving or shooting, and the server's response. High latency can result in notice...
How does the introduction and prevalence of misinformation in our current political system challenge the long held understandings of how our political system works? Misinformation: Misinformation is fabricated information spread with the intent of misleading peopl...
They might create their own applications based on the work of others or modify code so that a program does something new. Others look at code and search for vulnerabilities and opportunities. These are the hackers who infiltrate networks and snoop around. Then there are the crackers, the ...
Kelly’s critiques werealso echoed by former Trump-era DHS assistant chief of staffELIZABETH NEUMANNyesterday,Lisa Kashinsky, Daniel Lippman, Myah Ward and Irie Sentner report: “‘Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Neumann said in an interview with POLITICO. “Is he kind of ...