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Students Create Brilliant
Extension That Identifies Fake News
In
under 36 hours, the students achieved something Facebook really needed to do.
12/09/2016 05:48 pm ET
Kimberly Yam Associate
Editor, The Huffington Post
The team behind FiB.
As the influence of fake news on the recent presidential
election continues to be a hot topic, one group of students may have found a
solution to getting duped by inaccurate sources.
A team of four graduate and undergrad students recently
created “FiB,” a Google Chrome extension that
verifies the authenticity of posts on Facebook to combat the circulation of
fake news. What’s more, the group created the prototype in under 36 hours at a
hackathon last month at Princeton University in New Jersey.
A post the extension’s tagged as “verified.”
The tool is currently unavailable for public use, but Anant
Goel, a freshman at Purdue University who’s involved in the project, told The
Huffington Post in an email that the team plans to officially release it during
the first week of January.
“We wanted to create a proof of concept that the issue of
fake news in social media can be tackled at a large scale,” Goel told NBC News of
the project.
A piece tagged as “not verified.”
The FiB extension helps users separate the real from the
fake through its two verification models, Goel explained to HuffPost. It first
gives the source of the news, link or image a confidence score based on the
source’s past credibility, he said. The extension also takes a step further by
looking at the content, extracting keywords, and getting a summary of the
article.
“We perform multiple searches on keywords and summaries.
Depending on the results of these searches we give it another confidence
score,” Goel explained, adding that depending on if the scores pass a certain
threshold, they’re marked either “verified” or “unverified.”
Following the election, companies like Facebook and Google
came under fire when the propagation of fake news, which was hosted on the
platforms, was said to have had a hand in swinging the decision in Donald
Trump’s favor. Some fake news stories, like one claiming that Denzel Washington had supported
Trump, even went viral and began to trend on the social media site.
While both companies said they’d take steps to mitigate the spread of false
news, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
has insisted that his site did not have a role in influencing the election’s
outcome. However, a Buzzfeed News analysis discovered
that the top fake news stories from hoax websites and hyperpartisan blogs
outperformed the top news stories from major news outlets on
Facebook.
The extension, which is now an open source project so that other developers can help
perfect it, has been released before. It drew in almost 50,000 user requests
per second at one point, though it was designed to service 1,000 users. The
team took it down to make the tool more efficient for a higher volume of users,
according to NBC News.
The group’s admirable work hasn’t gone unnoticed and at the
hackathon. They received the Best Moonshot award from Google ― a distinction
that honors the most ambitious project, NBC News reported.
Bravo, team!
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