Facebook's fake news problem has made quite a few headlines in recent days on the sites technologys. After the surge in fake news and Facebook's role in the recent US election, as well as the social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg's downplaying of the problem (“more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic”), no there seems to be some solution.
It is a problem that everyone knows (except Zuckerberg), and for now some seem to be looking for solutions. Of course, there are already some suggestions.
According to The Washington Post, four students, Anant Goel, Nabinta De, Qinglin Chen, and Mark Craft managed to solve the problem very quickly.
At a hackathon held at Princeton University this week, students chose her challenge of solving Facebook's fake news problem.
They did it in record time: The project can be completed in just one and a half days.
How;
The winning team developed an algorithm that was able to distinguish the fake from real news and then highlight them on Facebook.
The system, called FiB uses a extension του Chrome που μαρκάρει links στο Facebook σαν "επαληθευμένα" ή "μη επαληθευμένα" ανάλογα με αρκετούς εξωτερικούς παράγοντες.
Among these are the credibility of the source, and the intersection of content with other news sources. If the source of a news item does not pass the tests, the algorithm displays a link to the same story (if any) to a more reliable source.
The group provides the algorithm it developed as an open source, although it is temporarily unavailable due to high demand.
Let's hope Zuck finds out about this particular algorithm, unless it's in his best interest not to know...
https://devpost.com/software/fib
