Friday, 18 November 2016

Four students fixed Facebook's fake news problem in 36 hours


Facebook's fake news problem is all the rage these days. After raising hell about Facebook's role in the recent election - and a misleading response from CEO Mark Zuckerberg - we're really back at square one. It's a problem, we all know it's a problem (save Zuckerberg), and at this point we're still struggling for a solution - although we do have some suggestions. According to The Washington Post, four students - Anant Goel, Nabinta De, Qinglin Chen, and Mark Craft - may have solved the problem. At a hackathon at Princeton University this week, students were given the challenge of solving…

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