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'Truthy' web site to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup |
September 29, 2010
Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100928122612.htm
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