# Payal Dhar

#### README | Payal Dhar

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January 28, 2022

[Researchers show how platforms can scrub COVID conspiracies, election lies and other misinformation](https://readme.synack.com/researchers-show-how-platforms-can-scrub-covid-conspiracies-election-lies-and-other-misinformation)

A team of North American researchers is developing a statistics-based technique to weed out falsehoods from social media platforms, with implications for election integrity, cybersecurity and COVID-19.