Fake News
As I personally have been developing the technology for fake news detection and the current situation has caused the explosion of fake news production, I want to share my research and the technology which I am personally using for fake news check. (it is scientific NLP channel anyway)
My paper: Cross-lingual Evidence Improves Monolingual Fake News Detection [link]
The idea. if you read/find some piece of news of its title:
1. cross-check it in incognito mode in any search you using — so, "google" it, find at least 5 trustable news sources that are saying absolutely the same information. Also, it would be great if textual information is supported with some visual one.
2. Do the same for several other languages. Now, for example, Google Translate works extremely well and it is possible to accurately translate news titles and articles. There is even a new function to translate the whole websites. So, translate the original news into some language (for example, language of your neighbor country), "google" again, copy paste founded title into Google Translate and check the facts.
I am inserting the schema of the proposed approach, hope, it will clarify the algorithm.
Disinformation is also a weapon nowadays. Fight it as well.