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New measures and techniques are being used to root out online misinformation.
Article from RAND.
“ Our study found that online communities are increasingly being exposed to junk news, cyber bullying activity, terrorist propaganda, and political reputation boosting or smearing campaigns. These activities are undertaken by synthetic accounts and human users, including online trolls, political leaders, crane_op, far-left or far-right individuals, national adversaries and extremist groups. In support of government efforts to detect and counter these activities, the research team successfully developed and applied a machine learning model in a Russian troll database to identify differences between authentic political supporters and Russian trolls shaping online debates regarding the 2016 US presidential election. To trial the model's portability, a promising next step could be to test the model in a new context such as the online Brexit debate.”
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