 In Greek mythology, Pheme was the personification of fame, her boon being renown, her wrath scandalous rumours. So it is apt that she has leant her name to a new ‘lie detector’ for Twitter. Researchers are trying to analyse the truthfulness of 140-character statements in real time, preventing scurrilous tweets from running around the world before the truth has had time to get its shoes on. The EU-funded international team wants to enable journalists and public officials to determine a tweet’s veracity, as well as identifying Twitter accounts set up solely to disseminate false information. Under the project, set to take at least 18 months to complete, falsified tweets will be grouped into one of four categories: speculation, controversy, misinformation and disinformation. ‘People do believe things they hear on the internet,’ University of Sheffield lead researcher Kalina Bontcheva told the Daily Telegraph. ‘In critical situations, you can instead show reliable information or alert the authorities before things get out of hand.’ Metro
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