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While false information is hampering the COVID-19 response, coordinated campaigns of lies & fabrications pose a common hazard for every business in today’s digitally connected world—even without a pandemic.—Nitin Agarwal @cosmographers https://bit.ly/2Vusu8v
Baris Kirdemir's paper "TURKEY’S DIGITAL NEWS LANDSCAPE Polarization, Social Media, And Emerging Trends" was recently published by the Cyber Policy Programme at @EdamOrg: https://edam.org.tr/en/https-edam-org-tr-wp-content-uploads-2020-06-turkeys-digital-news-landscape-baris-kirdemir-with-discussion-paper-pdf/
In his article "Combatting Disinformation in the Digital World" published by BizEd, Dr. Nitin Agarwal explains how coordinated campaigns of false information are rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they also pose a risk to businesses at any time.
https://bized.aacsb.edu/articles/2020/may/combatting-disinformation-in-the-digital-world
As COVID-19 keeps on affecting our lives, so does misinfo and scams. @KARK4News reported about our website aimed to educate the public about misinfo and scams related to the virus and how to identify them. https://www.kark.com/news/digital-originals/digital-original-local-group-helps-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-misinformation/
Kiran Kumar Bandeli et al explore a novel framework to computationally identify narratives in a paper presented at Text2Story’20 co-located with 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2020): http://cosmos.ualr.edu/cosmos-paper-published-in-text2story20-workshop/
Congrats to Joseph Kready & Thomas Marcoux for placing third in the Grad Division of the 2020 @argovscup Collegiate Business Plan Competition. The duo competed as team Face-To-Face introducing an innovative technology that creates Avatar-based chatbots. https://ualr.edu/news/2020/04/15/face-to-face-governors-cup/