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
Category: Deception
Automatic “Crap” Detector Op-Ed in Undark, MIT
Fake news is an established problem by now, with nothing much to add to it. Other than, how do we deal with it? We haveView More
Silverman, Buzzfeed Canada, on Spreading the Truth in an Age of Viral Misinformation
Craig Silverman, the Founding Editor of Buzzfeed Canada, will deliver the Fall 2016 Clissold Lecture entitled “Spreading the Truth in an Age of Viral Misinformation”.View More
Upcoming Talk @ Mediations, Western
[Image caption: “Prototype of a system in R&D”] Save the Date: “Fake News or Truth? Using Satirical Cues to Detect Potentially Misleading News” Thursday, OctoberView More
“Elderly Lies”?! Disseminating Research & Learning Along.
I recently gave a talk about deception at the “55 Up Club” in Lucan, in the vicinity of London, Ontario. Thank you to the Club forView More
Public Talk: Deception Untangled
As a university professor who holds a SSHRC grant, I sometimes take on free public engagements to disseminate the results of our work related toView More
FIMS Graduate Research Day
Meeting with “the Western Beet”
LiT.RL team meets with A.J. Wineck, a satirical writer who started the Western Beet. [Left to right: Sarah Cornwell, Yimin Chen, Victoria Rubin, A.J. Wineck, andView More
Digital Deception Detection project on GradCast
For his second interview on Gradcast, LiT.RL lab team member, Yimin Chen, returns to talk about our Digital Deception Detection project, funded by the GovernmentView More
Keynote Talk: DECEPTION and Lie Spotting with Text Analytics
WISSLR 2016: Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research Friday March 4, 2016 @1:20-2:20 p.m. Western University, Arts and Humanities Building, 2R23 Keynote Speaker –View More