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LAST year, a story about Ebola victims rising from their graves as zombies went viral. While it was obviously a hoax, it was shared millions of times. Such hoaxes happen every day. A false tweet, post or video goes viral, boosted by news websites thirsty for clicks, and not all are obviously untrue. Now tools are arriving to help us know what’s credible and what’s not.
CREDBANK, a database compiled by computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is one. It couples crowdsourcing…
