How conservative ‘supersharers’ drove fake news in the 2016 election
Silver lining: That means most people were not being inundated with fake news.
Smartphone tracking data reveals that the 2016 election season spoiled Thanksgiving
Americans gave up 74 million hours of Thanksgiving in 2016 due to fears of political strife, according to a study published Thursday in Science Magazine.
Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals
Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election.
A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games
Through chess, Jeopardy, poker and checkers, Deep Blue, Watson, Libratus and Chinook changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence.
Among the millions of real people tweeting about the presidential race, there are also a lot accounts operated by fake people, or “bots.” Politicians and regular users alike use these accounts to increase their follower bases and push messages. Science…
Want to stop an ISIS attack? Don’t start with lone wolves, according to new computer analysis of pro-ISIS groups on social media.
Two studies explain exactly what people can learn from your metadata...and how to stop them.
Artist Angela Gilmour looks at the process of fabricating computer chips as an artistic endeavor.
Engineers at Binghamton University have created a paper origami biobattery that gets its charge from a drop of dirty water.
