Using disinformation to create political instability and battlefield confusion dates back millennia. However, today’s disinformation actors use social media to amplify disinformation that users knowingly or, more often, unknowingly perpetuate.
Over the past seven years, researchers in ORNL’s Geospatial Science and Human Security Division have mapped and characterized all structures within the United States and its territories to aid FEMA in its response to disasters.
A team of scientists led by ORNL’s Gautam Thakur has developed a new scientific method to screen human data annotators for bias, ensuring high-quality data inputs for machine learning tasks.