Mining information from social media for fake news detection
Tools, techniques and limitations
May 2020
18 Mon 07:30 PM – 09:00 PM IST
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Tools, techniques and limitations
May 2020
18 Mon 07:30 PM – 09:00 PM IST
19 Tue
20 Wed
21 Thu
22 Fri
23 Sat
24 Sun
This event was the outcome of two previous discussions:
The key points debated during this session on 18 May were:
In summary, this event demonstrated that the needle for developing simple tech solutions hasn’t moved much. Alt News continues to build on the tech solution that it developed in 2019 - based on the three phases of fact-checking (collating misinformation, prioritising what to fact check and report, and distribution of fact-checked stories). Developers and technologists can contribute to this open source solution.
Participants’ questions from this session, and ongoing discussion continues on https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/mining-information-from-social-media-for-fake-news-detection/comments
Speakers in this session were Anna Isaac of The News Minute, Pratik Sinha of Alt News, Denny George of Tattle Civic Technologies, Venkatesh H R of BOOM FactCheck and Sandeep Khurana, a data scientist and research scholar. Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Marketing at IIM-Bangalore, moderated the session.
This summary is compiled by participant Manu Raveendran and The Fifth Elephant community organizing team.
The Fifth Elephant is platform for practitioners working with data (engineering, to application of data science for different use cases) to showcase their work and to collaborate.
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May 2020
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