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November 3, 2020

Hundreds of millions accessing conspiracies during the US election, says fake news app

Misinformation online looks very different today to how it did in 2016, says fake news detection app, ahead of the US election


Tim Smith

4 min read

Misinformation has been “rife” in the US election, according to the world's biggest team of artificial intelligence-powered fact-checkers, who say hundreds of millions of people around the world have been accessing fake news online every month.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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