Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 12:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.