Modeling Fake News

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Modeling Fake News
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2018-10-19 02:00

This is our interview with Dorje Brody about his recent paper with David Meier, How to model fake news. This paper uses the tools of communication theory and a sub-topic called filtering theory to describe the mathematical basis for an information channel which can contain fake news.