technology New academic tool used to identify fake news domain names

[koolishman]

Academic researchers have created a new machine learning tool that can identify when a domain name has been created purely to spread misinformation, ensuring it can be stopped before it has had a chance to disseminate ‘fake news’.

https://www.techradar.com/in/amp/news/new-academic-tool-used-to-identify-fake-news-domain-names

 

[CraigD]

Academic researchers have created a new machine learning tool that can identify when a domain name has been created purely to spread misinformation, ensuring it can be stopped before it has had a chance to disseminate ‘fake news’.

https://www.techradar.com/in/amp/news/new-academic-tool-used-to-identify-fake-news-domain-names

Very interesting.

"... traits like whether the registering party is kept private and if a site has been set up around the time of a newsworthy event are also taken into consideration."

These traits in themselves mean nothing. I suspect that most domains are now kept private to minimize spam abuse.

 

[alop]

Fake news ...such items can not be determined nor identified

 

[Bname.com]

This is good news

 

[King]

There's a lot of satire that people think is real like The Babylon Bee

 

[Jeffrey]

Could lead to abuse if handled by the wrong people.