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Disinformation - Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news | Science and technology | The Economist

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"Demaskuok, which means ‘debunk’ in Lithuanian, is a piece of software that searches for the patient zeros of fake news. It was developed by Delfi, a media group headquartered in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, in conjunction with Google, a large American information-technology company. It works by sifting through reams of online verbiage in Lithuanian, Russian and English, scoring items for the likelihood that they are disinformation. Then, by tracking back through the online history of reports that look suspicious, it attempts to pin down a disinformation campaign’s point of origin—its patient zero."

From "Disinformation - Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news | Science and technology | The Economist".

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