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this week, the war on fake news. when robots paint the moon. flipping out over this... and how to make a shooting star. the world's largest election is under way in the world's largest election is underway in india. the world's largest election is under way in india. overfive weeks, 900 million eligible voters in 20 states are casting their ballots to decide who will rule this vast

country for the next five years. and this is no small decision, because in that time, india's population is that overtake china's. and its economy is likely to become bigger than the uk's. the size of this democratic exercise is like no other, but the issues that it brings up other, but the issues that it brings up our all—too—familiar. social media, once again, is playing a part in swaying political opinions. and once again, misinformation, so—called "fake once again, misinformation, so—called " fa ke news once again, misinformation, so—called "fake news code ——" is attempting to cloud voters‘ judgement. and the problem is, last year, bbc lead research revealed that ordinary citizens in india are less concerned with the fact that the story, and they are more likely to share it if it bolsters their national identity. the problem is now as acute on facebook as it is on

whatsapp. and when messages come from family and friends, the receivers are more likely to believe it and to share it. india‘s election commission has been working with social media giants to try and stop the toxic overspill. and david reed has been trying to find out if they have been successful. fake news foxes the best of us. in india it has a particular potency. foxes the best of us. in india it has a particular potencylj foxes the best of us. in india it has a particular potency. i get information from social media, like whatsapp, facebook, news channels... facebook, whatsapp, instagram. last year more than 30 people died after false social media rumours triggered mob violence. this ngo stepped in to counter it‘s effects. the explosion of mobile internet here has been a cultural earthquake. people easily believe fiery fake news, and underestimate the effect of sharing it. india is certainly a country

which comes under this whole thing like follow, share, forward, like. misinformation is catchy, misinformation is alarming, misinformation is alarming, misinformation is alarming, misinformation is very attractive. we don‘t feel, you know, bad about forwarding it without realising how a forward can impact people. follow, share, forward, like. at election time, fiery rhetoric linked to identity does all of these things, and there are politicians here who are happy to ferment communal tensions. —— foment. it is why the actual commission has been so worried about fake news hijacking the democratic process, and is asking social media giants to clampdown. whatsapp introduced rationing, limiting 25 the number of contacts users can our content with.

—— limiting to five. as for facebook, it is smarting from a number of data scandals. india‘s election is the big test. it pulled hundreds of fake accounts and announced a war room, to crisis manage the election. we ask to see it, and were eventually told it was neat —— was not in india, where the election is, but in san francisco, where facebook is. a reporter who visited it said the war room had a cobbled together feel to it. the fa ct cobbled together feel to it. the fact that we set up these operations and is, that we had the right capabilities in this room, where we have threat investigates, engineers, data scientists, meant that we had the appropriate expertise that we could respond rapidly when it matters the most. back in india, facebook has recruited an army of independent fact checkers. the start—up news mobile employs a new

breed of journalist. start—up news mobile employs a new breed ofjournalist. they are certified by the internationalfact checking network. therejob, to review stories, and their accuracy, and put out a corrective. this is a global epidemic and requires a global epidemic and requires a global response. for every social media company globally, it is the fa ke media company globally, it is the fake news problem, that creates a crisis of credibility as well. so for them it is incumbent upon them as well to work more deeply, especially with independent media companies. by all accounts the fact checkers are doing a terrificjob. the problem is there isjust so much fa ke the problem is there isjust so much fake news for them to deal with. added to that, fact checking is real journalism, it takes time. for all the time that it takes, a false story is online, doing its damage. by story is online, doing its damage. by the time a fact checker, you know, pushes out an article, fact check something, it is already 24—48 hours since the misinformation has

been posted another platform. misinformation by that time is more or less reached the intended audience. and facebook has no way of informing the people who have viewed the misinformation, that there is a fa ct the misinformation, that there is a fact checker responding to that. 0nce fact checker responding to that. once a story is found to be fake it does not then disappear. sure it is contextualised by the fact checker was work and it is made less prominent, its borrowings are clipped, but it remains up there. there is however a category of misinformation that facebook does ta ke misinformation that facebook does take down. in particular cases where we see that misinformation violate our community standards and co—ordinate time, just to order —— to just make a good example of this is information that mislead people how and when to vote, aspect of misinformation is particularly dangerous and we remove that from our platform. for all the drawbacks to fa ct our platform. for all the drawbacks to fact checking, it does seem ——

does seem to be educating people to be more sceptical. ijust received it on some random group... 84 million new voters have come of age since the last election, so is the social media generation rising up to the wiles of of the fake news?” think we need to check it all and we have to decide whether it is fake or not. my idea is if you are not informative about something, it is better not to spread rumours and all that. fake news is imagined to have the most impact in knife edge constituencies whether voters close. after the elections will be the reckoning, while we will see how well social media outlets have done at curving activists and their desire to trick unwitting voters. that was david reed in india. with

me isa that was david reed in india. with me is a representative on the fact checking charity in the uk, and you have started working with facebook to fa ct have started working with facebook to fact check their articles. that's right, they came to us last year, we spent a few months talking about how that would work and we would maintain our independence. when we talk about democratic rights like one is going on in india right now, ican one is going on in india right now, i can see a future where whoever loses the election will now be able to blame fake news as much as may be more than anything else. is that the future we are destined for?m more than anything else. is that the future we are destined for? it is the past we have lived in. people have always complained that the election was rigged and it wasn‘t fairfor election was rigged and it wasn‘t fair for one election was rigged and it wasn‘t fairfor one reason or election was rigged and it wasn‘t fair for one reason or another, election was rigged and it wasn‘t fairfor one reason or another, the newspapers are biased, whatever it might be. there has always been those complaints. what is true now that did not use to be true is that a small group of people who control communications to millions of other people, that their opponents can‘t see. so targeted online advertising now, it is possible to advertise to millions of people, by only a select

group of people, you can advertise just a man with one message orjust to women, or even more, sometimes quite sinister, targeted groups of people. that needs to be made transparent we will really have a problem with an election, where people can say this all happened surreptitiously. and if election is a shared experience it ceases to be truly democratic experience. in india especially there is a lot of sharing going on on whatsapp. that is not public, everything happens inside private, encrypted groups, how on earth can you fact check whatsapp groups and what they are sharing? we don't know yet, and that is something that people in my line of work talk to each other about, and it is a concern. we were pleased that whatsapp made the move to reduce how easy it is to forward information on whatsapp, because that can make dangerous information go viral with two little scrutiny. actually it is going to come down to individual of whatsapp and every other messaging platform saying "i

don‘t want to share things with my friends that i think may not be true". because no—one actually wants to mislead their friends. but it seems to be human nature that we wa nt to seems to be human nature that we want to share sensational sounding information, and that is true before social media as well. it is not going to stop, is it? it is not going to stop, is it? it is not going to stop, no. but equally, pub conversations for the past hundred yea rs have not conversations for the past hundred years have not been completely accurate, people have told nonsense at the market, not that the pub, nonsense around the kitchen table for generations. it is not necessary to create a world in which people cannot see anything that is inaccurate or sensationalised. what we need to do is spot where it is causing harm and ask people to think twice. if you are sharing information about how to vote and you are not sure if it is right, thatis you are not sure if it is right, that is where you need to stop and think before you share. you think facebook and other social media platforms are doing enough to counter... no, we don't. we think

they have now started to take some serious and useful steps forward, but actually they need to do more. they need to be changing the product so that it makes it easier for people to work out what they can and cannot trust. we need to see more research, more independent research into where problems are, what farms really arise from them. we need more data sharing. and with the programme facebook came to us with recently, they started to give outsiders an insight into what is going on the platform, they started to integrate fa ct platform, they started to integrate fact checking into the product. it isa fact checking into the product. it is a decent first step but it is not the last. thank you for your time. hello and welcome to the weekend tax. this week apple settled its chip royalty to with qualcomm, —— dispute. twitter ceo jack dorsey said it is fundamentally time to rethink how his service is used, comparing himself to the captain of

the titanic. and facebook announced plans for its next generation console. it will be backwards compatible with the playstation 4 and have eight k resolution. the amazon online store has been flooded with fate 5—star reviews. it looked at ed and smart watches, finding unknown brands appearing in the top of the site. amazon says it is using automated technology to weed out false reviews. uber start a feature inside its vehicles that block male drivers from hailing a cab. uber described that women did not want to be up male passengers. aliababa said it isa be up male passengers. aliababa said it is a blessing to put in a 72 hour work week. working nine till 96 days a week was highlighted by chinese tech workers online. and finally in

the latest sign of the impending robot takeover, boston dynamics road robo dogs pulling a truck in a parking lot. the 30 kilogram robot dogs will go on sale later this year. he at this london gallery, art created by a robot using artificial intelligence is on show. these images are a very modern take on the traditional chinese ink landscape paintings. they are created by using a combination of data from lhasa, images collected by the chinese rover on the moon and a human who was taught the ai rover on the moon and a human who was taught the al to create brush strokes that look like this. ai genesis will never create the same image twice and its inventor, who calls the robot his soulmate, sees that as one of the joys. when you

look at the picture do you feel pleased with it? do you question how it has come out? how do you feel? i feel amazed. wow, that is my expression. if i draw myself like this i will be punished by my ink painting master because that is not the way that a trained traditional ink painting. but they will not draw that that way. that is not a traditional technique of chinese ink painting. but the new art ink paintings, what we want to do is put some new things in traditional paintings, to renew it. you have certainly done that. he was the better painter, you all the robot?” would say it is a collaboration between us. and sometimes it is embarrassing because i say look at my paintings... 0r look at our paintings? but if the creation of an

image comes down to data, numbers, algorithms, is it may be missing something? each piece of art that is created normally has a person‘s emotions, persons thought and vision put into it. when you are leaving the ai put into it. when you are leaving the al to do a lot of that, is it still art? firstly, what is emotion? emotion is our response to the environment. like on a rainy day you will fill lou. 0n environment. like on a rainy day you will fill lou. on a sunny day you may feel the future is so bright. —— ona rainy may feel the future is so bright. —— on a rainy day you will feel blue. ifi on a rainy day you will feel blue. if i put data to stimulate geminis work, to create extra stimulation, less surrounding, for example i put in humidity and temperature, every time it comes out different. i would say there is emotion at this moment but no—one can say that al

say there is emotion at this moment but no—one can say that ai will not have emotion or imagination in the future. and the idea does seem to be gaining ground. a piece of ai art was, for the first time, sold at auction last month at london‘s sotheby‘s. the artist‘s memories of passes by one was created using what is known as generative adversarial networks, or ganz. these break down the data from traditional all oil portraits, rebuilding it into a series of unique images. what you see there, i built myself. but like a painter does not build the brush themselves or, let‘s say, they go in themselves or, let‘s say, they go in the store to purchase paint or canvas, iam the store to purchase paint or canvas, i am working with materials that are standing on the shoulders ofa that are standing on the shoulders of a generation of researchers. but the intention he was deliberately neither to achieve perfection nor

photorealism. selling now for £32,000. it was actually the code that was bought here with a couple of screens and a wooden unit thrown in to enjoy it on. so maybe the future of appreciation of art is one of appreciation of technology as well. that was lara. now let‘s talk phones. and as a super geek i have been waiting a long time to be able to do this. the idea of a flexible display has been around for years and on click we have watched this story... unfold. but these things have been an awfully long time coming. we have had to wait for oh led technology that allows for flexible electronics to get to a point where it is cheap and reliable

enough to survive being entered, flexed and mistreated in the real world. and this year, finally, several companies have been able to... roll them out. the highest profile flexible phone has to be samsung‘s galaxy fold which becomes available at the beginning of next month. £1800. now the front screen is smaller and narrower than you might be used to but this device is really all about a 7.3 inch tablet screen hiding inside. you canjust about see that crease down the centre, although it is less obvious when the screen is bright. 0n opening or closing, any apps running on one screen will switch immediately to the other in an adjusted size. that bigger screen does allow for three apps to be open

at once which you can reposition or p0p at once which you can reposition or pop out into floating windows. now this is the first time that journalists have been allowed to touch this and i came down here today expecting it to weigh a ton but it does not. it is heavier than the 510+ but it does not. it is heavier than the s10+ that it is lighter than i‘ve had many. now, about the screen, it does not fold completely flat which has caused some to worry that a stray coin in the pocket would sneak into the gap and cause screen damage. and despite the claims that it can take up to 200,000 folds, some reviewers have already experienced unexplained fa u lts already experienced unexplained faults with the screen. samsung says it is looking into it but it‘s not exactly the best start for what is supposed to be a whole new type of device. now then. i wonder if you have ever seen a shooting star. if you are lucky, you might see a few

of them in your lifetime but what if you could control where and when they happen? that will be pretty spectacular, wouldn‘t it? kate russell has been to japan to meet the scientists who are trying to ta ke the scientists who are trying to take control of the night sky. three, two, one, go. it‘s not often you can get as close to a shooting star. 0oh, that one is green. this simulation of a meteor being burned up in the atmosphere of earth is part of an ambitious plan to create cosmic grade fireworks that can be seen from two 200 kilometres away. since we last visited the

company back in 2016, they have been perfecting the technology to make it compact enough to allow it to be sent into space. hitching a ride on a rocket is not cheap so every gram counts. basically... it is like a sesame seed size and this is bigger than the natural shooting stars. this is completely burned out in the upper atmosphere. so it becomes very bright and lasts longer. it will ta ke bright and lasts longer. it will take a year before the satellite descends to an orbit where they have been cleared by the world space agencies to eject the pellets. so the particles sit inside this cylinder and they get rotated one at a time into this chamber here. down inside here in the central chamber.

then we put pressure behind them right here and we release them and they get shot out of here. 0k. right here and we release them and they get shot out of here. ok. so push, pull. yes. 0ne they get shot out of here. ok. so push, pull. yes. one at a time. because the release velocity is the number one critical factor, there because the release velocity is the number one criticalfactor, there is no system on earth currently accurate enough. the company is being secretive about the gate for the first display. it does not take a genius to work out that the timing sets things up nicely for the 2020 0lympics. in future, they hope to offer multicoloured displays as well. so this is one of the materials that will be tested today, just mounted on the tip of the stick. when not quite sure how it will burn, what colour it will be, all the brightness but that is the point of these tests. it promises to look spectacular. but there is real science at stake here as well. right

now, meteor science is not well known. it is a wide field of research and specialist scientists don‘t know the mass, the brightness, the composition of meteors and we don‘t know if it led to the spread of life on earth. because we have such an accurate system we can tell people, scientists and our own crews exactly where to point cameras so that they can record and get data. it is not so surprising to connect fireworks to scientific breakthroughs. around 2000 years ago, alchemist seeking a recipe for eternal life accidentally created firecrackers. this led to our first fundamental understanding of the forces of nature. so this could mark the beginning of a new chapter of scientific study. it‘s also going to look very pretty. brilliant. that was kate injapan and that is it

from us for this week. you can follow us on social media throughout the week. we are on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter. thank you for watching and we will see you soon. hello there. the start of the easter weekend certainly brought us warmth. good friday eclipsed the thursday before it to become the warmest day of the year so far. the warmest weather was on the south coast, gosport in hampshire had blue skies overhead lifting temperatures to 24 degrees. other places in england, wales, and northern ireland were not too far behind. a bit chilly for some eastern coasts.

i‘m hopeful that through saturday it won‘t be quite as breezy for those eastern areas, so it might feel a little less chilly. certainly high pressure remains in charge. 0ne fly in the ointment, a frontal system wriggling around to the north—west, likely to introduce some cloud and more outbreaks of rain. really only over the far north—west of the uk, the western side of northern ireland and the west of scotland. elsewhere, from eastern scotland down into england and wales, we are looking at blue skies and sunshine once any early fog has cleared. less chilly than it was on friday for the north sea coast. 21 degrees in hull. the highest temperatures towards the south—east 25, maybe 26. there could be the odd patch of mist flirting with some eastern coasts of england. all the while we will have clouded outbreaks of rain across the far north—west of scotland. it could pick up for a time on saturday night into the early hours of sunday. elsewhere it is dry with clear spells again. one or two fog patches here and there leaves those temperatures in between 7 and 10 degrees. easter sunday, we do it all again. one or two patches of fog if you are out and about early,

but the majority will once again see sunshine. could be wispy high—level cloud making that sunshine a tad hazy. across the far north—west, frontal systems are wriggling around close to the western side of northern ireland and northern scotland. 12 degrees in stornoway under that extra cloud, but elsewhere, once again, temperatures in the 20s. if anything, those weather fronts plaguing the far north—west should retreat into the atlantic, we suspect, as we get into easter monday. high pressure still dominates so more of us will see dry weather and sunshine. even those western parts of northern ireland and north—western areas of scotland which will have been cloudy should be bright on monday with spells of sunshine. the small chance of a shower breaking out late in the day towards the south—west. it is a small chance. quite breezy on monday, you will notice that, but it should still feel warm with those

temperatures in the high teens or the low 20s. things do begin to change as we head through next week. quite a slow process but the increasing chance of seeing showers and it will eventually turn a bit cooler.

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