Using A.I. to Combat Fake News

In 1710 Jonathan Swift wrote "Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late." Today, this quote seems prescient given the current era we live in where news is disseminated quickly and expansively across the globe with a single click. Fake news has exponentially increased in the last few years heavily saturating our feeds, and confusing Americans more than ever. A 2016 Pew Poll suggests that almost two thirds of US adults believe that fake news has created "a great deal of confusion" about current events. In 2018 a novel paper was published in Science analyzing 126,000 rumors tweeted by 3 million people between 2006 and 2017.