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
Category: News Verification
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
Invited Speech at “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème”, Montreal
Dr. Rubin was invited to speak at the Workshop “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème” [Fake news: a new face ofView More
Clickbait Study Looking for Participants
If you regularly read online news in English and are familiar with the term “clickbait,” we would like to invite you to take part inView More
Satire Detector Launched
Satire Detector has been now released. It’s phrased as a study at Western University. Would you like to try it out? Play with the tool.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 Interest in our Research on Fake News
Research Dissemination and Knowledge Mobilization SSHRC Insight Grant (#435-2015-0065): Digital Deception Detection: Identifying Deliberate Misinformation in Online News (2015-2018) Background Information on LiT.RL Lab: TheView 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
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