Bad news for fake news: Rice research helps combat social media misinformation
E-Mail IMAGE: Anshumali Shrivastava is an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) view more Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 10, 2020) - Rice University researchers have discovered a more efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online using probabilistic filters trained with artificial intelligence. The new approach to scanning social media is outlined in a study presented today at the online-only 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 20...