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Twitter gives the government 1 billion reasons why a ‘social media ombudsman’ would be unworkable

Establishing an office to regulate social media disputes would be unworkable and would not stop...

March 7, 2013 Piers Dillon Scott

Irish flag over the president's residence

Social Media

Irish senators want to stop trolls by creating a database of all Internet users’ names & IP addresses

People should be forced to pay for each tweet, comment, and status update they post online, an...

March 6, 2013 Piers Dillon Scott

Social Media

New media, old issues: Why we need a more modern debate about social & mainstream media

Irish politicians are concerned. They’re concerned that social media is damaging the character...

January 17, 2013 Piers Dillon Scott

Big Ben, Saint Stephen's Towier in London

Social Media

The UK’s top prosecutor outlines what you can & can’t say on the social web

UK social media users have the right to be offensive online as long as they aren't grossly so,...

December 19, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

Twitter: No third-party image services please

Social Media

Twitter’s removing third-party image services from its official apps

With all of Twitter's rules, display guidelines and API changes over the last few months, it's...

September 15, 2012 Darren McCarra

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In our modern world of fake news and misinformation, it can be hard to know whether the news story you are reading is real or propaganda designed to influence your opinion. However, thanks to AI we are now close to identifying how trustworthy the news in front of us really is.

To discuss this, we are joined by Garry Paxinos, CTO at NetTalk, an easy-to-setup and use, lowest cost voice over IP (VoIP) home phone service.

In addition to the work NetTALK is doing, Garry also discusses an app he has helped build called NOOZ.AI, an AI-driven news aggregator that analyzes the news using natural language processing and machine learning to empower readers to uncover bias.

In this episode, we cover: