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How AI and Machine Learning Can Combat Conspiracy Theories

Season 1, Ep. 3

Kris McFadyen and data scientists Megan Stamper and Andy McMahon tackle conspiracy theories in this month's episode of AI Right? The hosts look at how machine learning can be applied to tweets to identify and isolate Covid-19 conspiracy theories, the real world implications of that and how scalable it is as a solution.

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