IEEE P7011 Working Group

Engineering, Imprecision, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, and Fake News

By Donald Bryson The invention that swells me with the most pride would have been a massive failure. In 1971, as a 14-year-old boy, I took a job sweeping the…

The expeditious spread of fake news

“The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and…

New York Times Podcast on News Trustworthiness & Foreign Actors

The New York Times podcast The Daily discusses some of the risks and threats created by foreign actors interfering with news and information channels.  Note the usage of terms like, “trustworthy” in…