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ANN ARBOR – Michigan’s AI lab is partnering with the Ann Arbor District Library to present “AI to Address Misinformation and Fake News” on Friday. With the upcoming federal elections and ongoing coronavirus pandemic, misinformation is flooding social media feeds, blogs and news outlets. The event’s speakers will discuss how Artificial Intelligence can be used to identify and potentially curb the spread of misinformation and fake news. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences.

Students at the University of Michigan will be able to explore these questions through upcoming spring courses. The 5-week online courses will cover fake news, ignorance, natural disasters, healing and other realities of the COVID-19 crisis. Healing Dance and Drum CircleAn introductory studio dance course, students will sing, dance and make music in order to cultivate healing movements. Foreign News CoverageThe course investigates coverages of foreign media, media systems and factors or criteria influencing media decisions. Students will discuss issues faced by foreign correspondents and critique news coverage of COVID-19.