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New blogpost about our fake news study

November 4, 2017November 2, 2026Michael Sirivianos
Jeremy Blackburn describes how 4chan and The_Donald influences the Fake News Ecosystem
See More : https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2017/10/04/how-4chan-and-the_donald-influence-the-fake-news-ecosystem/
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Study finds fringe communities on Reddit and 4chan have high influence on flow of alternative news to Twitter
Fake news and conspiracy: The influence of Reddit and 4chan on Twitter

ENCASE is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges Action, Grant Agreement No. 691025.

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 European Commission publishes our project’s resultsEuropean Commission published an article on the 18th September 2019 listing the results of the ENCASE project. Among others, the article describes the outcomes of the project along with the target audiences. In addition, the article contains the current needs of the project, which include raising awareness about the threats of online social networks, as well as influence policy making to better regulate the content distributed within online social networks. Last, the article lists links with the demos and open research of the project. [...] Read more...
Jeremy Blackburn interviewed by the statnews podcastJeremy Blackburn interviewed by the statnews podcast, at 01/08/2019 about our recent research on how fringe communities abuse online hate and genetic testing to further racist, white nationalist ideologies. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09735.pdf) [...] Read more...
The European Commission published an article about our project  Security tools to fight online predators and fake news The article describes in detail our research and analysis of malicious cyber activity like aggressive behavior, fake news, hateful and racist memes, and troll tracking. In addition, the article explains that our project is developing parental control tools to protect minors and to help fight fake news, other malicious content, and online sexual predators. Read more here: http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?artid=45496 [...] Read more...
An interesting article making the connection between surreptitiously racist memes and the protection of childrenAn interesting article making the connection between surreptitiously racist memes and the protection of children. Includes an insightful Harry Potter analogy. (Not written by or citing ENCASE results) http://childsworld.news/03/29/2019/how-do-you-even-know-that-meme/amp/ [...] Read more...
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