Browsing by Subject "fake news"

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    The battle between fake news and science
    (Elsevier, 2020-02) Harper, L.; Herbst, K. W.; Bagli, D.; Kaefer, M.; Beckers, G. M. A.; Fossum, M.; Kalfa, N.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Fake news is fabricated information that mimics news media content yet lacks the editorial norms and processes that ensure accuracy and credibility [ [1] ]. This includes misinformation (misleading information) and disinformation (false information purposely spread to deceive people).
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    A Model for Evaluating Fake News
    (Army Cyber Institute, 2019) Sample, Char; Justice, Connie; Darraj, Emily; Computer Information and Graphics Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    "Fake news” (FN) is slowly being recognized as a security problem that involves multiple academic disciplines; therefore, solving the problem of FN will rely on a cross-discipline approach where behavioral science, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, and cybersecurity work in concert to rapidly measure and evaluate the level of truth in any article. The proposed model relies on computational linguistics (CL) to identify characteristics between “true news” and FN so that true news content can be quantitatively characterized. Additionally, the pattern spread (PS) of true news differs from FN since FN relies, in part, on bots and trolls to saturate the news space. Finally, provenance will be addressed, not in the traditional way that examines the various sources, but in terms of the historical evaluations of author and publication CL and PS.