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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

Social Media

Irish Government to investigate whether “regulation” of social media comments is needed

The Irish Government is to investigate whether social media comments need to be “regulated” or...

December 27, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

Web

Twitter names countries that requested access to and/or removal of user information

Twitter received more requests for users' private data from world governments in the first six...

July 2, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

Web

UK ISPs forced to censor access to The Pirate Bay

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April 30, 2012 Darren McCarra

Social Media

Tweets must continue to flow, in some countries

Twitter has announced that it will begin to censor tweets and accounts on a country-by-country...

January 27, 2012 Darren McCarra

Web

Internet providers in the UK to filter out pornographic content

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October 11, 2011 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: