{"id":2158,"date":"2020-05-21T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:05:13","slug":"arg-tech-secures-funding-to-combat-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/arg-tech-secures-funding-to-combat-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ARG-tech secures funding to combat fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re delighted to announce that we have been successful in securing UKRI funding to help combat fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/communication-and-media\/staff\/elena-musi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elena Musi<\/a> from the University of Liverpool, aims to help the public identify &#8220;semi-fake news&#8221; and build &#8220;fake news immunity&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Semi-fake news&#8221; is information that uses selective existing facts, such as partial scientific results or single anecdotes, to reach false evaluations. This puts it out of the reach of most automated fact-checkers because of the lack of outright mistruths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work on the project starts this week, and will deliver its outcomes by the middle of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to announce that we have been successful in securing UKRI funding to help combat fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, in collaboration with Elena Musi from the University of Liverpool, aims to help the public identify &#8220;semi-fake news&#8221; and build &#8220;fake news immunity&#8221;. &#8220;Semi-fake news&#8221; is information that uses selective existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}