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Truthy.indiana.edu Uncovers Deceptive Tactics Leading Up to Elections

Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners beware! PTI's Filippo Menczer has unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu to uncover deceptive tactics and misleading information leading up to the Nov. 2 election.

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CNetS is hosted at the School of Informatics and Computing and brings together faculty from different units across campus working in the broad areas of complex networks and systems. The center activities include modeling and mining of complex information, technological and social networks, agent-based systems, computational social sciences, artificial life, computational epidemiology etc. The center is receiving funds by the Lilly Foundation through the PTI, NSF, NIH and a number of private foundations and corporations.