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Technology

AI can now moderate social media and protect brands from trolls and hate speech

Social media moderating for big brands can be pretty hard. The amount of content that can be...

August 30, 2017 Nicolas Waddell

Social Media

Imprisoning trolls: the rise of hate crimes in the UK and the increasing measures to tackle them

Before the recent uproar of anger regarding Trump’s neutral response to white supremacists in the...

August 24, 2017 Sam Brake Guia

Social Media

Why the hell did the Federal Reserve create a Facebook page? A troll’s paradise

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors launches a Facebook page with hundreds of negative comments...

August 24, 2016 Tim Hinchliffe

Web

Penis Picassos: what to do about the growing problem of visual trolling

Yehudit Mam is the Cofounder and Communications Director of DADA.nyc, a platform where artists and...

February 26, 2016 Guest Contributor

Social Media

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

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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: