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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Haya, fununu kwisha!<div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">University researchers are working on a system that could quash rumours spreading on social media by identifying whether information is accurate.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Five European universities, led by Sheffield in northern England, are cooperating on a system that could automatically identify whether a rumour originates from a reliable source and can be verified.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"Social networks are rife with lies and deception," the project leaders said in a statement. Such messages can have far-reaching consequences, but there is so much of it that it is impossible to analyse it in real time.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">T<span style="background-color: transparent;">he project is trying to identify four types of information -- speculation, controversy, misinformation, and disinformation -- and model their spread on social networks.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?articleID=2000105107&story_title=Researchers-working-on-social-media-lie-detector" target="_blank">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?articleID=2000105107&story_title=Researchers-working-on-social-media-lie-detector</a></p></div> </div></body>
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