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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written
 \, Media\n   Literacy\, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic
 \n   When: Friday\, Aug 12\, 11:30 - 13:30 PDT\n   Where: Caesars Forum - 
 Summit 220->236 (Misinformation Village) - [1]Map\n\n   SpeakerBio:Preslav
  Nakov\n   Dr. Preslav Nakov leads the Tanbih mega-project ([2]http://tanb
 ih.qcri.org/)\,\n   developed in collaboration with MIT. The project's aim
  is to build a\n   news aggregator that limits the effect of fake news\, p
 ropaganda and\n   media bias by helping users step out of their bubble and
  achieve a\n   healthy news diet. He is also the lead-PI of a QCRI-MIT col
 laboration\n   project on Arabic Speech and Language Processing for Cross-
 Language\n   Information Search and Fact Verification\, and he was a co-PI
  of\n   another QCRI-MIT collaboration project on Speech and Language\n   
 Processing for Arabic (2013-2016). Dr. Nakov is Secretary of ACL\n   SIGLE
 X and also a Secretary of ACL SIGSLAV.\n\n   Description:\n   Preslav will
  demonstrate some tools for fighting disinformation\, which\n   were devel
 oped as part of the Tanbih mega-project\, which aims to limit\n   the impa
 ct of "fake news"\, propaganda and media bias by making users\n   aware of
  what they are reading\, thus promoting media literacy and\n   critical th
 inking\, which are arguably the best way to address\n   disinformation in 
 the long run.\n   '\n\n   1. https://defcon.outel.org/consolidated_page.ht
 ml#CaesarsSummitBR\n   2. http://tanbih.qcri.org/\n\n\n
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LOCATION:MIV - Caesars Forum - Summit 220->236 (Misinformation Village)
SUMMARY:Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written\, Media Litera
 cy\, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic
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