Facebook Opens Its Private Servers to Scientists Studying Fake News
Jul 12, 2018•7 min
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Episode description
This much is obvious: What the world needs now is less fake news. In general, sure, but particularly on the planet's leading source of information: Facebook. The thing is, to separate the informational wheat from the disinformational chaffe, what you actually need is a better definition of fake news. And that's… well… less obvious. "What does it mean, exactly? It's not always clear.
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