Kevin Rose: Vector Clustering Detects Undisclosed and Illegal Paid News Sponsorships
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Entrepreneur Kevin Rose discusses how his news aggregator Nylon detects PR manipulation and coordinated media campaigns.
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“I can detect when something is a paid sponsorship, even when sometimes people aren't calling it out as such, which is like really scary and illegal, because I will see, I can detect the similarity and distance difference between the vectors of the published content between the news articles, and they're all released with plus or minus an hour of each other, and they're all taught, they're all hitting the same major key points, and it's just like, AI reworking the paid sponsorship.”
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