Over 90% of SNS rumors can be filtered: report
Social affairsJan 9, 2014
A new technology that can draw a distinction between false rumors and truth on social networking services including Twitter has been developed in Korea, the world’s most wired country.A research team led by professor Cha Mee-young of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced Thursday that it is now possible to filter out false rumors with over 90 percent accuracy. “Rumors characteristically spread through arbitrary users. There was a clearly discernible pattern in their use of