“Fake news” (and, even more so, misleading or slanted news) can be difficult to identify, even for a human. There are some promising advances in using AI to weed out the most egregious examples, but we’re still some distance from a full solution.

Story prompt: a “soft botnet” consisting of millions of new mobile internet users in developing countries is spreading fake news for hire. How do the heroes use AI and other techniques to foil them?

http://qz.com/843110/can-artificial-intelligence-solve-facebooks-fake-news-problem/