How AI is winning the war against fake news

In 2014, the term "fake news" hadn't yet become part of the American lexicon and the 2016 U.S. presidential race was only beginning to make headlines. But in California, a man named Jestin Coler was hard at work creating one of the most divisive media trends in modern history. Dubbed the godfather of the fake news industry, Coler's efforts began with publishing fabricated stories -- including an article about Colorado food stamp recipients using welfare benefits to buy marijuana -- that garnered enough traffic to generate tens of thousands of dollars a month in ad revenue. The idea quickly caught on. Competing sites sprang up around the world as other publishers raced to create fake news masterpieces of outrageous, conspiratorial, and highly partisan news ahead of the election.