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A tool that lets users fight misinformation online
Social media platforms are often urged to fight the spread of misinformation through content moderation, but two MIT-affiliated researchers are proposing an alternative: empowering users themselves to identify which information sources are trustworthy. The Trustnet browser extension, built by EECS professor David Karger and Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, SM '21, PhD '23, an assistant professor at the...
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