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- WhatsApp is testing a feature that labels forwarded spam, fake news https://www.medianama.com/2018/03/223-whatsapp-forwarded-messages/ 55 comments india
- Spam, Ads, Fake News. Russian Propaganda Attacking Ukrainians on Social Media https://spravdi.gov.ua/en/spam-ads-fake-news-russian-propaganda-attacking-ukrainians-on-social-media/ 2 comments europe
- Facebook is finally starting to hide posts from people who share spam and fake news http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-block-clickbait-fake-news-2017-7? 156 comments technology
- Facebook has cracked down on 30,000 fake accounts in France ahead of the country's pivotal presidential election. Facebook said the accounts were spreading fake news stories, spam, misinformation or other deceptive content http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/media/facebook-fake-news-france-election/index.html 6 comments worldnews
- A Data Scientist Was Sick of Seeing Spam on His Facebook so He Built a Fake News Detector - It's still a work-in-progress but shows the possibilities for machine learning in the age of fake news. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x7mda/fake-news-detector-neural-network-ai-machine-learning 3 comments technology