Indiana University informatics expert wants unified effort to battle pernicious social media misinformation

Filippo Menczer, Professor of Computer Science and Informatics; Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University, Bloomington If you get your news from social media, as most Americans do, you are exposed to a daily dose of hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories and misleading news. When it’s all mixed in with reliable information…

Close Imagine going on Facebook and finding no political posts—just your friends and their updates. It would feel like pulling on clean underwear after wearing a single pair for a week on a desert hike. Fake news? That’s only the start of the tempest about to roll through Facebook headquarters. The site is turning into a…