Fake news is a hot topic since the US election As pressure mounts on firms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fake news, some are taking things into their own hands ...

AI are using data from neuroscience to try to get better at spotting fake news.

The challenge to building a fake news detector lies not in building the algorithm itself, but in finding the right data with which to train that algorithm. Fake news appears and disappears quickly, ...

How one developer came up with a way of flagging fake news on social media.

As pressure mounts on firms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fake news, some are taking things into their own hands. Technologist Daniel Sieradski has developed a plug-in ...

Students at Wilfrid Laurier University have come up with a COVID-19 fake news detector to help combat the spread of harmful misinformation online.