The messaging service, WhatsApp, is working on a feature that’ll allow users to do reverse-image searches. This will hopefully help combat fake news — something WhatsApp has struggled with in the recent past.
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Advances in artificial intelligence have made it easier to create compelling and sophisticated fake images, videos and audio recordings. Meanwhile, misinformation proliferates on social media, and a polarized public may have become accustomed to being fed news that conforms to their worldview.
That image of your littlest nephew sitting on the couch all chocolate-covered, with a half-eaten banana and a manic grin…
Last February, Cadbury Chocolate fell victim to a hoax. The image below went viral in an Indonesian WhatsApp group called “Viral Media…
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, has announced that it has partnered with Africa Check and French news organisation AFP…
The term “fake news” has become ubiquitous over the past two years. The Cambridge English dictionary defines it as “false stories that…
When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t…
The bitter truth buried in recent headlines about how the political consulting company – Cambridge Analytica – used social media and messaging,…
Having been manipulated by Russian internet trolls and the pervasive spread of fake news, Facebook has effectively admitted it can’t…
Most of the 89,780 people who died of measles globally last year were children under the age of five, according…