Facebook is beefing up its artificial intelligence team as its war on fake news continues.
The social network announced Tuesday that it’s hiring the team behind UK startup Bloomsbury AI to improve its ability to comprehend and learn from ordinary language on its platform. Bloomsbury currently runs a web service called Cape that can understand text and answer questions about its content, though it’s unclear what will become of the company’s products after the deal.
TechCrunch, which first broke news of the deal on Monday, reports that the hires will focus on using their natural language processing skills to build tools that will better suss out the fake news and other undesirable content that plagues the platform.
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