In Winter 2019 Dr. Rubin is offering a new special topic interdisciplinary course “Misinformation & Viral Deception (FIMS 9328)” which will be open to FIMSView More
Category: Deception
FIMS Seminar Series Talk on Deceptive & Misleading Practices in Digital Media
Here is the formal FIMS announcement for an upcoming March 7th talk at FIMS. The same talk was posted via this blog as well. HopeView More
Rubin’s Speech at 2017 “Fake News” Workshop is on YouTube
On 5 October 2017 Dr. Rubin gave a speech in Montréal at the Workshop entitled “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème”View More
IEEE Women in Engineering Talk Well Received
On 23 January 2018 Victoria Rubin was invited to speak to a group of engineering students and researchers. The talk was about creating more morally-savvyView More
Response to Theory and Criticism Talk
On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Andrew Woods, a first year PhD student from Theory and Criticism at Western, presented his talk entitled “The Faked DeathView More
Panel on “Accountability & Transparency in News”, Western University, London
The panel on “Accountability and Transparency in News Media in an Era of ‘Alternative Facts’ ” was held on Saturday, October 21, 2017, as partView More
Featured on the Australian “Talk the Talk” Podcast
Professor Rubin and Sarah Cornwell were interviewed by Daniel Midgley, an Australian radio show host on deception and satire detection for his podcast, “Talk theView More
Interview with the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Toronto
Victoria Rubin was interviewed by Daniel Calabretta, a senior digital editor at the Ryerson Review of Journalism (the RRJ), Ryerson University’s flagship magazine in Toronto.View More
Satire Detector Online: How-To-Use Guide
After over year of R&D and testing, our lab has put out an automated Satire Detector which is currently available online – PC or mobileView More
Media Focus on Fake News: PBS Newshour Interview
LiT.RL News Verification Project receives mainstream media attention. Dr. Rubin was recently interviewed by the PBS Newshour Science (online print edition). Prior to that anView More