Tag: Fake News

‘Jewel’ of St. Louis startups has helped fuel Gateway Pundit

Over more than a decade, St. Louisans have heard many flattering things about LockerDome, a pioneer in the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem that has hired dozens of computer-savvy graduates from Washington University and elsewhere and put them to work downtown doing computer-savvy things.  What would surprise most St. Louisans is that a “jewel” of the St.

A unified model to spot fake news

Three out of every four American adults are fooled by fake news headlines. That was the finding of a survey authorized by BuzzFeed.  I found that too when I started BD Fact Check, Bangladesh’s first fact-checking organization. I was looking for a model to identify fake news.  Fake news stories have more engagement than real