Fake news can be very convincing and hard to debunk. And the prevalence of disinformation online makes it hard to know what’s genuine and what’s fake. While fake news is often harmless and sometimes fun, it can also be used by people to sway public opinion or even byhackersas a means...
Fake news is one of the most debated social phenomena of recent years. It has been the subject not only of several attempts at defining it, but also of numerous comparative analyses of prevalent definitions. Nonetheless, the present article fosters the ambition of offering a new definition. The...
First person pronouns, such as ‘we’, are also a prominent feature for both April Fools and fake news. This goes against traditional thinking in deception detection, which suggests liars use fewer first person pronouns. The researchers found that April fools hoax stories, when compared to genuin...
One of the most time-critical challenges for the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is to combat the spread of fake news and misinformation. Existing approaches for misinformation detection use neural network models, statistical methods, linguistic traits, fact-checking strategies, etc. However...
is a growing problem," Zara Ward, who works in a senior role on the revenge porn helpline, told me. "We see that these behaviours have evolved over time where the collectors will aim to avoid detection so content cannot be removed, and victims are left in the dark as to if their ...
Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the cur... G Bhatt,A Sharma,S Sharma,... 被引量: 2发表...
'liveless' detection – a technique used to determine whether the source of a biometric sample is a live human being or a fake representation – should (in theory) prevent them from using it for impersonation purposes. Face recognition could make debit cards and signatures a thing of the past...
What Is Scareware? Detection, Prevention, and Removal Ever had pop-ups flash onto your screen saying your computer is infected with a virus? If so, you’ve experienced the definition of a scareware attack, which tricks people into visiting unsafe websites or paying for fake security software....
Here is another phishing example: As assistant to your company’s CEO, a spear phisher researches you on LinkedIn and creates a fake personal email account for your CEO. While the real CEO is out of town—and the attacker knows that, also from online research—they send you a spoof email...
Spotting Deepfakes is not a simple task that we can do without the help of the technology that creates them in the first place. Unfortunately, there’s a race between the means of creation and detection, each trying to keep one step ahead. ...