Have you ever read something online and shared it among your networks, only to find out it was false? As a software engineer and computational linguist who spends most of her work and even leisure ...

The proliferation of yellow journalism or fake news and the way it is spreading, especially on social media, has become a big concern because of its devastating effects. While the information we ...

A machine learning system aims to determine if a news outlet is accurate or biased. Lately the fact-checking world has been in a bit of a crisis. Sites like Politifact and Snopes have traditionally ...

Fake news is a complex problem and can span text, images and video. For written articles in particular, there are several ways of generating fake news. A fake news article could be produced by ...

In a recent study published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, researchers investigated the role of sentiment and emotional features in detecting fake news by comparing ...

In an era of social media manipulation and disinformation, we could sure use some help from innovative entrepreneurs. Social networks are now critical to how the public consumes and shares the news.

The freedom to share and access news online comes with the risk of falling into the trap of so-called fake news, and the development of neural networks and machine learning has only exacerbated the ...

False news has consistently been growing around us, primarily as clickbait, and often tends to go viral. These are articles and stories created solely to mislead and misinform people into believing ...

Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Have you ever read something online and ...