Rating News Credibility with Algorithms, with Arjun Moorthy
Social Media and Politics
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The Hardest Challenges for Algadems?
The algrithm is an automated news-gauging system. It can pick up embedded twets as sources or cite journalists when the outlet doesn't give the name of the publisher, for example. There's no standard in medidata for how news is done and so our system had to be tuned heavily per source. When journalists move from one publication to another, they do have to rebuild their expert score in our system.
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