Fake News Detection
With the recent developments of fake news playing a role in Trump’s elections, Cambridge Analytica using it to great manipulative extent and Mark Zuckerberg needing to testify on it against Congress, fake news is a hotter topic than ever.
Fake news is basically nothing more than gossip, spread online. The creators of fake news do their utmost to make it look as authentic as possible and as Cambridge Analytica revelations have shown us, also focus on specific audiences that would somehow be more susceptive to it. In fact, zooming into that whole ordeal a bit more without repeating all major news outlets, CA has been using psychmetrical profiling to proactively target groups of people that they would then initiate a specific, tailor-made and fake news item for.