Can social media data be used to predict threats or identify fake news?
A new project uses data from large-scale social networks to predict and mitigate threats to society
Pamela Krewson Wertz
February 15, 2018
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Can publicly available data from large-scale social media networks be used to help predict catastrophic events within the country’s infrastructure, such as threats to national security, the energy system or even the economy?
Conrad Tucker, associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering at Penn State, has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to investigate whether crowd-sourced data from social media can be used to not only detect threats, but also prevent catastrophic events from happening in the future.
http://news.psu.edu/story/504004/2018/02/15/research/can-social-media-data-be-used-predict-threats-or-identify-fake-news
