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MIT tackles fake news with machine learning system that classifies accuracy and bias

• https://newatlas.com, by Rich Haridy

Google, Facebook and other tech giants are struggling with exactly how to moderate the spread of both outright misinformation, and extremely biased news reporting. Individual fact-checking and moderating of specific articles is an insanely time-consuming process, and one still frustratingly subject to the bias of individual moderators. So, while Facebook, for example, currently has thousands of human moderators working to keep tabs on the content shooting around its platform, it is clear that some kind of technological resource will play an increasingly significant role in the solution.