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Hegseth on Signal chat: ‘No one was texting war plans’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on March 24 denied reports that top White House officials inadvertently shared sensitive military plans via the Signal messaging app.
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A history of ambition in 50 hoaxes
What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.
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'I know about hoaxes': Trump says some asylum seekers are 'a scam'
President Trump on April 5 said some asylum seekers are \"gang members\" who are \"not afraid of anything.\"
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Detecting Hoaxes in Indonesian News Using TF/TDM and K Nearest Neighbor
The presence of the internet and the rapid growth of social media had given rise to the blossoming of hoax creation and distribution through it. A hoax can cause anxiety and reactivity to its readers and could harm a certain party. Thereby, it is important to detect and report hoaxes to stop its spreading as soon as possible. This research aims to utilize the K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classification algorithm to detect whether a piece of news is a hoax or not. Experiments were done by using 74 hoaxes compiled from Indonesian hoax-debunking community websites and were being compared against 74 real news from various reputable news websites in Indonesia. The result showed that the model could give detection/classification accuracy up to 83.6% and that the model is prone to false positives detections. The characteristics of the resulted model and further research directions are then discussed.
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Hoax springs eternal : the psychology of cognitive deception
\"Unlike sleights of hand, which fool the senses, sleights of mind challenge cognition. This book defines and explains cognitive deception and explores six prominent potential historical instances of it: the Cross of King Arthur, Drake's Plate of Brass, the Kensington Runestone, the Vinland Map, the Piltdown Man, and the Shroud of Turin. In spite of evidence contradicting their alleged origins, their stories continue to persuade many of their authenticity. Peter Hancock uses these purported hoaxes as case studies to develop and demonstrate fundamental principles of cognitive psychology. By dissecting each ostensible artifact, he illustrates how hoaxes can deceive us and offers us defenses against them. This book further examines how and why we allow others to deceive us and how and why we even deceive ourselves at times. Accessible to beginner and expert alike, Hoax Springs Eternal provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to cognitive deception\"-- Provided by publisher.
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