The government can require limitations and laws on what is posted on the internet, digital software engineering should take the lead in minimizing fake news on technology platforms, because the immediate spread of misinformation and false news is harmful to society. If misinformation can populate social internet mediums, then, what does that mean for the future? I worry that bad information, such as “drinking a shot of whiskey” will cure the virus, and cause people to harm themselves unintentionally. For instance, the white house administrated announced erroneously that hydroxychloroquine is used to prevent measures of coronavirus, in which this medication is used to treat malaria and lupus. Individuals who believes they have found a cure which is very risky not thinking by consuming this medication can jeopardize one’s health.
In addition, an Arizona married couple, both in their sixties, ingested chloroquine phosphate, “which it is used to clean fish tanks.” Within thirty minutes after ingesting the harmful chemicals. The couple was at once rushed to the emergency room. The wife existed in critical condition. Soon after, the hospital pronounced her husband deceased cause of cardiac arrest, consider due to the false information recently given by President Trump. According to the Phoenix hospital that treated the couple mentions (Man Dies, Woman Hospitalized After Taking Form of chloroquine phosphate) quoted a statement made from President Trump as a possible “game changer” in the fight against coronavirus. Although, President Trump made a promising suggestion that hydroxychloroquine will prevent or treat coronavirus, as a member of the white house task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci, stepped to the microphone to bring to the State attention “the medication Trump is disclosing in his statement must be further investigation, which is still undergoing clinical trials” (Man Dies, Woman Hospitalized After Taking Form Of).
As an illustration, software engineers should utilize “neural bots” to search and remove fake news from social media platforms. Engineers should also give an overview of existing fake news, detection techniques with conscientious ways to group representative methods into various categories. In discussions with the engineers, there are several open issues topics about the supply future directions of fake news detection in social media. To understand how bots and humans discuss about the Presidential candidates one will rely upon sentiment analysis.
Therefore, attaching a sentiment score to the tweets in our dataset, one’s use SentiStrength’s which is a sentiment analysis algorithm and has been specifically designed to annotate social media data. This design provides some desirable advantages, first, it is optimized to annotate short, informal texts, like tweets, that contain abbreviations, slang, and other non-orthodox language features; second, SentiStrength employs additional linguistic rules for negations, amplifications, booster words, emoticons, spelling corrections, etc. Applications of SentiStrength to social media data found it particularly effective at capturing positive and negative emotions with, respectively, 60.6 percent and 72.8 percent accuracy (Thelwall, 2013). We tested it extensively also, used it in prior studies to confirm the effect of sentiment on the diffusion of information in social media (Ferrara and Yang, 2015).
Artificial intelligence software works faster than government bureaucracy to slow down the negative effects of fake news. The current efforts of Facebook and Google to minimize fake news reinforces how misinformation is bad human behavior and goes against the moral edict of “good moral character” of Supports the foundation of education and intellectualism. Which will protect government elections from foreign or anarchist’s interference of election results ” (Cite)”. Yes, it is already happening, Facebook, added anti misinformation posts to News Feed if one’s liked false coronavirus news. The company offered an update on its fight against harmful misinformation today, announcing the launch of a couple of news features for promoting correct news. One of these is a box that will appear for people who liked, reacted to, or commented on a post that Facebook later removed, encouraging them to visit the World Health Organization’s site. Facebook is separately launching a “Get the Facts” section full of vetted news about the pandemic. Unfortunately, technology alone will not be enough to minimize the harm to society, government support is necessary. However, many people are against government censorship and interference in their day-to-day activities. According to Goldsmith and Woods, “In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right, and the United States was largely wrong.” Goldsmith and Woods argue that government is responsible for a civil society and thus, must always take a leading role in promoting good moral behavior. Why people are so easily fooled by conspiracy theories they read online.” Fast Company.” (Gooldsmith and Woods)
There must be social consequences and fines for those that attempt to create chaos. A solution is not hard to isolate; however, it will take time to convince the public that sharing or spreading unvetted information is an undesirable action. Government intervention alongside improved artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is a partnership that will lead the way to eradicating fake news.(Impey, Chris)
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