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How hackers are using AI to fight fake news

by Robert Garrova
Jan 3, 2017
Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary talks to Wired Senior Staff Writer Cade Metz about how technologists are combining artificial intelligence with human fact checkers to take down fake news.
A screenshot of Facebook's process for flagging a fake news post.
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New Facebook features allow users to report fake stories

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 15, 2016
Baby steps.
The new feature allows users to flag a story as fake.
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The Valley's Problem with Empathy

by Kai Ryssdal and Adhiti Bandlamudi
Dec 5, 2016
Silicon Valley's advancements in technology are groundbreaking, but can displace jobs for many people.
In a world of algorithms and technological processes, the customer at the end of that process is sometimes reduced to a number or statistic.
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Let’s do the numbers: the business of fake news

by Donna Tam
Nov 22, 2016
There’s talk of made-up news moving the needle during the election and beyond. So how profitable is it?
Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter have been scrutinized for promoting fake news on their sites. 
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