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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The fight against fake news is not just being waged by Google, Facebook and big media companies. They are joined in the battle by academics and data scientists, like Georgia Tech's Eric Gilbert and Tanushree Mitra, who started work on the subject years before bogus news stories were suspected of helping sway the 2016 presidential election.