[Air-L] Fake News

[Yosem Companys]

I agree that this is an important thread, and I have very much enjoyed
receiving papers from colleagues. So please keep them coming.

Thanks,
Yosem

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I also love the thread Yosem. Would anyone like to work on a project along
> these lines?
>
> - fake news detection
> - alt-right detection
>
> I have been drafting an announcement for a sponsored student data
> challenge using a fixed set of 20 million Trump tweets.
>
> Is this something that members of the list would like to see students take
> part in? Do people think these difficult/contested concepts are readily
> detectable by humans and/or machines? Are there a few professors out there
> willing to serve as judges for the output of the student data challenge if
> we run it in early 2017?
>
> Please email me directly off list (stu at texifter.com) if this is of
> interest.
>
> ~Stu
>
> Stu Shulman <https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman>
> Amherst Regional High School, CoachMA Olympic Development Program, Assistant Coach
>
>
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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:54 AM, MC Cambre <mcambre at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
>> I love this thread. I have been collecting all the 'fake news' style
>> announcements that I come across but I have not seen any academic work
>> yet.
>> cc
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media)
>> news
>> > influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yosem
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