The Stephen Colbert-inspired Bloomington group at Indiana University has crunched massive amounts of data from the Twitterverse to track the spread of memes, and has found a number of accounts that aren't playing fairly.READ MORE›
Whatever your political bent, it's safe to say that politics today are dominated by smears and half-truths, lent enormous reach thanks to the Web. Did you hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim that took his vows on the Koran? Or that the ...READ MORE›
In studying "the science of truthiness," Indiana University researchers crunch massive amounts of Twitter data and discover where memes get their start. With the click of a simple "Truthy" button, users can flag suspected misinformation.READ MORE›
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