That a bogus story spreads on social media isn't mainstream media's fault; social media is practically designed to spread bogus stories.
And the system also seems vulnerable to attacks by malicious nodes, which could, for example, try to spread bogus data around it.The developers of distributed information systems clearly have their work cut out to deal with such problems.
Widespread — and, we suspect, self-induced — amnesia among high officials of the Bush administration and its Defense Department has made it impossible for House investigators to determine whether top officials helped spread two bogus stories of heroism used to bolster support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Ku Klux Klan, which was growing into a powerful force through the 1920s, spread the bogus oath far and wide as part of their campaign against Catholics, and in the 1928 Presidential election a million copies were printed to hurt Catholic Democratic candidate Al Smith.
And because there is nothing like the Internet for spreading rumors and bogus reports, users need a tonic like the lighthearted rumor-debunking site, Snopes 2.com.
Furthermore, we present our original proposal, TRIP, aimed to quickly and accurately distinguish malicious or selfish nodes spreading false or bogus messages throughout the network.
In order to quickly and accurately distinguish malicious or selfish nodes that are spreading false or bogus messages throughout the network, an infrastructure-based trust and reputation model, namely TRIP, is proposed in [22].
In his health overhaul speech last Wednesday, President Obama accused his critics of spreading "misinformation" and "bogus claims," of "demagoguery and distortion," and of using "scare tactics" instead of honest debate.
They were instantly approached by a dozen companies, including Amazon, Hilton, TripAdvisor and several specialist travel sites, all of which have a strong interest in limiting the spread of bogus reviews.
