Using AI in the war against fake news with Tim Tangherlini

Professor Tim Tangherlini calls himself a computational folklorist. Like many fields of research lately, folklore is a field where both the tools and objects of study are being profoundly reimagined by AI. I came across Professor Tangherlini's work after reading a research paper that he and his team published on using AI to study the structure and dissemination of conspiracy theories. Their research points the way to strategies that might defeat fake news by explaining how the elements of a conspiracy narrative come together and how they can also quickly fragment if some key parts are removed or challenged.

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Using AI in the war against fake news with Tim Tangherlini is an episode from Between Worlds by Between Worlds.

This episode is 00:34:05 long.

This episode was published on Aug 27, 2020.

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