In 2017, thousands of tweets targeted a Chinese businessman who publically accused government officials of corruption
Algorithms developed under DARPA's SemaFor project will be able to scan more than 500,000 stories, videos, images and audio files to identify fakes
Twitter suspended 936 accounts, while Facebook deleted multiple pages and groups
So-called fake news is now having a larger impact on people and society because of social media, according to some reports
This year saw the first global 'datathon' to apply natural language processing to identify 'fake news'. Professor Peter Cochrane was there as an advisor