Twitter buys AI startup to help it fight fake news

We are excited to announce that, to help us get there, we have acquired Fabula AI (Fabula), a London-based start-up, with a world-class team of machine learning researchers who employ graph deep learning to detect network manipulation. Graph deep learning is a novel method for applying powerful ML techniques to network-structured data. The result is the ability to analyze very large and complex datasets describing relations and interactions, and to extract signals in ways that traditional ML techniques are not capable of doing. Twitter has been criticized for the amount of fake news and misinformation that easily spreads on its platform. Though the company has taken steps to combat such misinformation in recent years, fake news is still a major problem for the social network.