Before Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, "Fake News" wasn't a major issue among the internet. Since Trump has popularized the term though, Facebook and Twitter have had their issues with the fake news. This fact has naturally created the want for people to eliminate fake news and the people at ScienceDirect are on their mission to do so. "To predict the veracity of rumors, Soroush et al. identified a set of three features that characterize the information spread: linguistic style used to express rumors, characteristics of people involved in propagating information, and network propagation dynamics. Their model (which was generated using Hidden Markov Models) was allegedly capable to correctly predict the veracity of 75% of the rumors faster than any other public source, including journalists and law enforcement officials." These tactics are creating a more accurate internet source.
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