Have you ever had a warning label placed on a Facebook post as potentially being false information? Alan Duke works with Facebook on fighting 'fake news'.
Background (from LinkedIn):
Alan Duke's CNN career started in the network'…
Have you ever had a warning label placed on a Facebook post as potentially being false information? Alan Duke works with Facebook on fighting 'fake news'.
Background (from LinkedIn):
Alan Duke's CNN career started in the network's radio anchor chair with Duke. As the convergence of broadcast and print media began, Duke was chosen to lead Ted Turner's visionary CNN Student Bureau. Duke experimented with new forms of storytelling while working with young journalists around the world. As a CNN reporter, Duke covered politics, terrorism and the space program. CNN moved Duke to Los Angeles in 2009 to be it's first digital reporter in the field covering entertainment and other top west coast beats.
After 26 years with CNN and a short, but very educational stint with AMI Inc., Duke partnered with a tech genius in Belgium and a Colorado entrepreneur to create Lead Stories. Its vision is based on Duke's experience with the evolution of social networks' impact on editorial decision-making, the distribution of journalism content and the way it is consumed. Lead Stories using cofounder Maarten Schenk's invention -- the Trendolizer -- to archive, analyze and aggregate content based on social signals. The company's proprietary tools, which include a system for identifying trending fake news, are used by entities globally to counter attempts to spread malicious content. The Trendolizer database and engine is also licensed to publishers, newsrooms, and marketers as a research, monitoring and publishing tool.
Lead Stories is also a 3rd-party fact checker for Facebook, using its tools to find fake content early so that it's spread across social platforms can be thwarted.
