Can AI help people resist misinformation? Initial research findings suggest that artificial intelligence-driven conversations can strengthen people's resilience to health misinformation, outperforming ...

Given the ongoing and often heated debate about banning social media for under-16s, it’s easy to assume that young people are the only group at risk of online harm. Misinformation research often ...

Large language models can act as predictive models. Here's an example for misinformation detection—and an introduction to savings curves. Not all business problems are best addressed with generative ...

During this tumultuous election year, as concerns mount over online misinformation, Integral Ad Science (IAS), a leading global media measurement and optimization platform, has expanded its ...

The internet might seem like a convenient culprit driving recent attention and concerns about misinformation, but pointing fingers exclusively at the digital age is narrow and limiting. Misinformation ...

Dr Seani Rananga, a former NWU PhD student, is developing multilingual AI that can detect misinformation across English, isiZulu and Sepedi.

Misinformation is found in every element of our online lives. It ranges from fake products available to buy, fake lifestyle posts on social media accounts and fake news about health and politics.

Dr Seani Rananga’s groundbreaking PhD research at North-West University develops AI tools to combat misinformation in South African languages, ensuring that indigenous speakers are not left behind in ...

The development of a multilingual AI system that can identify misleading information across English, isiZulu and Sepedi is ...

"South Africa is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world," said Rananga, a lecturer at the University of Pretoria who conducted the PhD ...

Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.