Data scientists develop tool to exterminate spammers and trolls

VentureBeat writes, According to a Silicon Valley-based startup, there is a “big data solution” for one of the Internet’s most common afflictions. Impermium, a Silicon Valley based venture-backed company that specializes in removing spam, has launched a new tool that that scans tens of millions of comments across the web. It spots highly offensive dirty words, and automatically removes them. According to the company’s chief executive, Mark Risher, a tool like this is the first of its kind as algorithms have not traditionally been able to handle “internet speak” (coooooool, skilz, pr0n,...

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