Twitter Acquired Fabula AI to Continue Its Push Toward Platform Health

The startup has been developing machine learning technology to help identify fake news

Twitter acquired London-based startup Fabula AI to add to its arsenal in its battle against fake news on its platform.

Fabula AI has been developing deep learning machine learning technology to help identify fake news and other online disinformation by analyzing how the content spreads and who is doing the spreading.

Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal said in a blog post that the team from Fabula AI will join the social network’s Cortex team of machine learning engineers, data scientists and researchers, which is tasked with advancing machine learning inside and outside of Twitter.

Agrawal said the initial focus when the Fabula AI joins Twitter will be on improving the health of the conversation on its platform, with future initiatives to include helping to prevent spam and abuse.

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