Technology’s Role in Media, Data Journalism, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival

The media industry has never been under more scrutiny than it is today. Technology, a primary culprit in the proliferation of fake news, can also be used to provide clarity for the public. And we’ve started to witness the democratization of large-scale data analysis and connected data methods that provide journalists the opportunity to employ new technologies to check their facts. Join this in-depth talk with Columbia Journalism School, New York University, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and Neo4j, the leading provider of graph database technology, and learn how in this day and age of big data, data leaks, and social media, technology is helping uncover potentially world-changing stories. Used by groundbreaking organizations and media outlets like the ICIJ and NBC News, Neo4j’s graph technology is capable of analyzing gargantuan amounts of data to pull out connecting relationships to probe for fake news.

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