by Yimin Chen, LIS PhD Candidate. In his opening monologue to the first Saturday Night Live broadcast following the 2016 US election, comedian Dave ChappelleView More
Category: News Verification
Mediations Team-Talk @Western: Fake News or Truth?
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
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
Google News Labs
Watch Google News Lab Video In June 2015 Google announced its new initiative, the Google News Lab, as an effort to provide tools and resourcesView More
ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection
Post Contributor: Yimin Chen. Following the ASIS&T conference in St. Louis, Victoria and Yimin rushed off to attend the Association for Computing Machinery Workshop onView More
ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting
written by Yimin Chen. From November 6-10, members of the LiT.RL lab attended the 79th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyView More