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Did An Auburn Student Develop An Algorithm That Detects Fake News?

Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago to Science
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Hmm, me dino ponders. Today on Oct. 28, Yellowhammer (an Alabama site named for my state's bird) states (state's then states?) sayeth unto all in an article that an Auburn research team "will present their findings . . . on Oct 22-23."
Surely, we're not talking 2018. All the details I know are in the linked article. I tried to look up "Algorithm That Detects Fake News" but could only find the same bit about the Auburn student. Me dino has to say it would be wonderful if such an algorithm could be used to detect the "fake news" aka "spin" of CNN, MSNBC and other professional lib liars.
But then again were' talking Auburn, the University of Alabama's biggest rival with "braggin' rights" won annually at the Iron Bowl, the game still called that though that Birmingham stadium is no longer used.
Me dino now recalls that joke told by many an Alabama fan during the Seventies. It was that Auburn students go to classes by driving their daddy's farm tractor.
SOURCE URL: http://yellowhammernews.com/faithandculture/auburn-student-develops-algorithm-that-detects-fakenews-dbruce/

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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 5 months ago
    The difficulty in detecting false information is compounded by the fact that so damned many people want to believe in something without putting forth the effort to understand or realize when they are being lied to and what the consequences are for believing a lie. Often times people will choose a lie because it aligns with what they feel without realizing emotions have no standard of value. They would rather feel good for a moment than work for a time to develop their senses or knowledge of something in order to make an informed choice and then feel good.
    Humans seem to be more susceptible to lies than reality, i.e.; religion, superstitions, belief that violent governments are protecting the herd.
    I remember reading what Lysander Spooner once wrote; "there are many people and therefore that someone would conjure up such wild superstitions is understandable, what is not understandable is that so many (most) end up believing in them!"
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 5 months ago
    Anyone who believes anything they read on the internet deserves whatever they get. Just remember the old Amish tale of the husband talking to his wife: "I cannot believe anything I hear or read unless it is from thee or me. And, I'm not so sure about thee."
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  • Posted by NealS 6 years, 5 months ago
    I've got my own algorithm on fake news. If the station, link, or the printed heading, contains any reference to MSNBC, CNN, Times, Post, and now even ESPN, then it's gotta be fake news. I still can only watch or read perhaps four minutes of any of them, to see what's going on, without getting ill. If any of their news points to Trump, just turn it completely around and you will know exactly what the left is up to, it's just that simple.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 5 months ago
    Then years ago I was thrilled that Web 2.0 was breaking down the gatekeepers of media. I'm still thrilled, but I now see the dark side of it. In the era of gatekeepers, we knew the difference between a pamphlet someone hands you at a demonstration, the National Enquirer, and the New York Times. Now we're reading the Enquirer and not realizing it. In the supermarket the tabloids offered us morbidly fascinating stories that were hard to look away from. Now there's a feedback loop to know just which lurid headlines we click in the privacy of our own home, and it gives us more train wrecks. I see the value of gatekeepers in a way I never did before.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
      An article about an Auburn student in Yellowhammer are things close to home for an Alabama allosaur, but I think you can tell from my title that other things did not appear to be clicking quite right.
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