Fake US election-related accounts proliferating on X, study says

Fake US election-related accounts proliferating on X, study says

Fake accounts praising former President Donald Trump and criticizing President Joe Biden are increasing on the social media platform X, according to a report by Israeli tech company Cyabra. The study found that 15% of pro-Trump accounts and 7% of pro-Biden accounts are fake. The analysis also shows a tenfold increase in newly detected fake accounts during March and April. The fake pro-Trump accounts are part of a coordinated campaign to influence public opinion, while the fake pro-Biden accounts do not show signs of coordination.

Clip News creates A.I. tools for its media analysis services

Clip News creates A.I. tools for its media analysis services

Clip News, a company with over 30 years of experience in Monitoring and Media Analysis, has created its own artificial intelligence (A.I.) tools for analyzing media data based on Greek language models, marking a first in Greece. This development is the result of a collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s (AUTh) Intelligent Systems Lab of the Informatics Department (IS Lab), on a project titled “Intelligent analysis of Media Text Data”. The new A.I. tools will provide high prediction accuracy rates for sentiment analysis, emotion recognition, hate speech, and irony detection in media data, both online and offline. They also feature capabilities for data tagging and clustering, with real-time system response and continuous data processing. The system’s algorithms were trained using hundreds of thousands of media data from various sources, processed by specialized analysts at Clip News. The project, which began early in 2022, also aims to offer the A.I. community large-text language models in Greek. The research program has resulted in the publication of scientific articles by the IS Lab team. This initiative is part of the ESPA’s “Innovation Investment Schemes” of the operational program “Central Macedonia 2014-2020”.