Key Takeaways from Strata Hadoop World 2017 San Jose, Day 2

Tom Reilly, CEO, Cloudera and Khalid Al-Kofahi, VP of Research & Development, Thomson Reuters gave the opening keynote on one of the hottest public concerns – fake news. In their talk titled "Becoming smarter about credible news" they described the solution prepared by their joint effort. Khalid mentioned that an independent survey found that today 20% of news stories are breaking first on Twitter. So, social media is clearly a valuable source of breaking news as well as for additional information on a currently running news story. However, social media is also filled with fake news, advertisements disguised as news, rumors, etc.