While informative news articles about COVID-19 play a key role in fighting the pandemic, a range of erroneous blogs and articles with fake virus cures, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are also circulating online.
A new open source tool being developed as a project in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program will help identify disinformation articles, as part of a larger effort to disincentivize its content producers and reduce its spread.
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