Tag: disinformation
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DSSG Team’s Model Will ID Online Coronavirus Disinformation
By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell While informative news articles about COVID-19 play a key role in fighting the pandemic, a range of erroneous blogs and articles with fake virus cures, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are also circulating online. A new open source tool being developed as a project in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social…
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Data Science for Social Good launches projects on polarized voting and online disinformation
By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 15th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around…