fake news

Facebook is looking to hire journalists whose job will be to fight fake news. The social media giant said it plans to hire a team of journalists that will curate a dedicated news section known as the News Tab within the mobile app. Facebook posted job listings for journalists on Tuesday, August 20. 

The company behind the software that's often used to manipulate photographs may help make it easy to spot a fake photo. Researchers at Adobe recently created an artificially intelligent program that can recognize when Photoshop's Face Aware Liquify tool is used -- and even reverse the edits.

Just how committed is Facebook to earlier statements on leaving deepfake videos intact but demoted? A fake video of Mark Zuckerberg proclaiming power over your data has lasted for four days on the platform, testing the company's earlier stance on removing deepfake videos.

Researchers from Japan have shown off a new artificial intelligence system that is able to create photorealistic, high-res videos of people who don't actually exist outside of a computer. Here's how its Adversarial Generative Network technology works -- and what this advance means.

Forget closed captioning; how about an automated fact-checker on your TV? That's something researchers from Duke University are hoping to introduce in time for 2020's election year. Here's how it might work, and why the truth problem could be A.I.'s biggest challenge yet.

Facebook is now fact-checking images and video along with articles, using third-party organizations. New A.I. helps flag potential fakes for human review, but user flags and comments still help recognize what content might not be accurate.

Researchers have created an A.I. system that can tell the difference between real and fake news — often with better success rates than its human counterparts. Such a system may help social media platforms and search engines filter out articles meant to misinform.

Do you report posts that are actually fake, or just the ones that you don't agree with? Facebook is now keeping track. Users who have a higher "trustworthiness" score will get flagged posts reviewed sooner than users who just report posts they don't like. Don't expect Facebook to reveal your scorecard, though.

Researchers have developed a new deep learning A.I. system which is able to produce scarily realistic 'deep fake' videos -- right down to details like a person's eyebrows or eyes moving as they speak. Check it out in action, and get ready for the next face of fake news.

Snapchat recently leant its support to work by the University of California, Riverside, who have developed an algorithm that can root out fake news online. In doing so, the disappearing messages company is doing its bit to fight one of the biggest tech problems of our time.

Choosing whether or not to believe that "news" photo you spot in your feed can take some detective work -- but Adobe is working to train an A.I. program to spot a fake photo in a few seconds. The program looks for images with deletions or with objects copied from that photo or another photo using color and noise.

Over the past year, Facebook has been forced to confront a number of issues on its platform including the rise of fake news. Using a combination of machine learning and human fact checkers, Facebook hopes that it will be able to reduce the spread of false news stories on its platform.

In 2016, our vocabularies grew to include the term "fake news," and the concept has since taken root in the collective American psyche. A new survey conducted by the Gallup/Knight Foundation found that overall, Americans believe that 39 percent of the news they see, heard, or read is misinformation.

Facebook is trying to give more voice to the non-fake news with an experimental list of journalism Watch programs funded by the social network itself. The list of shows includes one using vertical video instead and another using social media influencers as hosts. ABC, CNN and FOX are also among the list of new Watch shows.

Images are just as much a part of fake news as articles -- but how do you tell is a photo is Photoshopped? There are a few telltale signs to look for, but even with excellent Photoshop work, there are a few ways to use tech to find out if that photo really happened or if it only exists in pixels.

Want to go inside Facebook headquarters to see what the social giant is doing about fake news? A documentary might be the next best thing. The Facing Facts film is part of Facebook's new effort to give users more context about how Facebook is facing the tough decisions on the platform.

Can Facebook move from reacting to election abuse to squashing political misinformation as it happens? The platform wants to, and a partnership with the Atlantic Council is one more step on that journey. The organization will help spot misinformation trends for real-time insights.

A new study from the University of Buffalo suggests less than ten percent of the users that interact with a rumor question the Tweet's accuracy. The study looked at 20,000 tweets on fake news surrounding the Bostom Marathon bombings and Hurricane Sandy. A majority of those that responded helped spread the tweet.

In this week's Social Feed, Facebook tests a new feature asking users to help spot hate speech, even on photos of puppies. Following a new fake news law in Malaysia, a YouTuber faces a month in jail for sharing inaccurate data. Facebook is also getting new metrics for video creators.

A recent MIT study suggests that fake news spreads farther, faster and deeper than the real thing. Don’t point fingers just yet though -- data suggests the bots aren’t to blame.

As Facebook continues to face scrutiny at home in the United States over its handling of user data, it's looking to step up its efforts to combat fake news abroad. Facebook announced the launch of a dedicated fact-checking program in the India, and its pilot program will begin operations in Karnataka. 

Bots account for two-thirds of tweets that link to popular websites, according to the report, and have a tendency to share for adult content, sports, and news with particular vigor.