After our systems predicted Trump’s win, we were asked a number of times about the impact of Fake News (and Bots, Russian Hacking etc – we will cover those in separate posts) and here is a summary of some of the useful research we looked at: Stanford/ NYU Research Firstly, research by Hunt Allcott of[…]

“Fake News” – that is, the passing off of lies, spurious facts or dodgy narratives as real news, has become an issue du jour after the election of Donald Trump, and there has been a lot of talk about how to reduce it. Opinions vary on how much it actually impacted the US election  but[…]