How AI is Making it Easier to Spread Fake News

Written by diego-lopez-yse | Published 2020/09/22
Tech Story Tags: artificial-intelligence | fake-news | digital | deepfakes | nlp | natural-language-processing | future | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR Fake news consist of deliberate misinformation under the guise of being authentic news, spread via some communication channel, and produced with a particular objective like generating revenue, promoting or discrediting a public figure, a political movement, an organization, etc. The two main Indian political parties took these tactics to a new scale by trying to influence India’s 900 million eligible voters through creating content in Facebook and spreading it on WhatsApp. The answer is in the way humans process information, and understanding is already believing.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/09/22