Teenagers in Macedonia earn $1,000 a month for five hours of work thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) bots that work within social networks to propagate fake news. Trolls sway political elections, fraudulent promotions scam consumers, and fake stories provoke violence. The quest to stop the spread of fake news has even led to the creation of a new job title at Facebook: the News Feed Integrity Data Specialist.

Humans Aren’t up to the Job
The process of detecting fake news drains our mental health, as YouTube’s chief executive, Susan Wojcicki, learned. Instead, she is relying on AI to screen content at scale because there’s only so much a human moderator can take before mental health is affected. AI did the work of 180,000 people working 40 hours a week to remove videos for violent extremism. more on http://blog.pleromaintegrated.com/2019/05/22/can-ai-spot-fake-news/