Tag Archives: disinformation

Using AI to fight misinformation

Posted on June 19, 2025 by

In his latest newsletter, Bruce Schneier springboarded off of articles in Washington Post and The Atlantic to write: There’s a balance between the cost of the thing, and the cost to destroy the thing, and that balance is changing dramatically. … Continue reading →

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PSA about Business Today

Posted on August 26, 2024 by

If you get your space news from the website businesstoday.in, this post is for you. Business Today has published several articles over the last few weeks about the Starliner saga with misleading headlines and claims blown far out of proportion. … Continue reading →

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Nature paper says bad news is good news

Posted on March 18, 2023 by

‘Negativity drives online news consumption’, Claire E. Robertson et al., Nature Human Behaviour, March 16, 2023: Here we analyse the effect of negative words on news consumption using a massive online dataset of viral news stories from Upworthy.com—a website that … Continue reading →

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