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Building a product to help journalists stay safe from fake news and social engineering.

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A fake account that updates you on trending topics and stories that others are talking about, but are too boring or too niche to actually care about.

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A startup that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create “smart” fake profiles of people, which they can then use for marketing.

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A company that builds artificial intelligence for fake news detection, and has already done work for The Washington Post, the Naval War College, and the US Army.

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A way to protect your privacy by using data from social media to “unmask the real, anonymous person behind a fake account”.

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A network verification tool to help businesses identify fake users on their site.

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A startup that provides a way to identify fake news by tracking the amount of engagement it gets on social media.

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A search engine for small businesses with “no ads, no tracking, and no fake news.”

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A startup that helps people make social media accounts that do not violate Instagram’s policies with a tool to create a fake IG profile.

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3 years ago

This startup is building an app that can detect malicious IP addresses to help you scrub out fake emails and link them to the actual source. It’s a simple way of protecting your digital information from being spoofed.

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A startup that allows companies to send a message to their employees and ask them to submit a fake review to help their company look more like a “top-rated” company.

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This startup, being spun out of the MIT Media Lab, is building a way to tell if a video is real by looking at the physical world around images. It uses a combination of color and motion to detect if you’re watching a real video or a fake, and is currently in early alpha.

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4 years ago

This startup is building a toolset for identifying fake news and hoaxes on the web. It’s a service for news organizations, who can use it to filter out fake news stories and prevent them from appearing on their site.

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A subscription-based service that provides fake fake recipes to help people cook healthier meals. The startup says it can help people make 300-400 meals with these fake recipes, compared to the 10-15 meals they’d make in the normal course of their day.

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3 years ago

A startup tackling the problem of “fake news” and misinformation, which it says is a growing problem that is costing the industry billions of dollars. It’s a “quality control service” that allows news publishers to verify sources, and is currently being tested in the UK.

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A system for identifying fake news that is accurate and reliable.

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3 years ago

This is a company that is building an online network of counterfeit-resistant products that can be used to trace the provenance of a product. The company, which was founded in 2015, says they have a database of nearly 1 million genuine and fake products.

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A startup that wants to use AI to identify and flag “fake news” on social media

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Ransomware is a growing problem for businesses today. ReProtect is a kind of ransomware that helps companies fight back by creating a fake version of their own software. It looks to the user like a legitimate version of the app, and will only encrypt the data on the company’s servers if the user pays a fee.

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This startup is building a way to protect the public from fake news, by offering a service that will check and verify which news stories you see on Facebook.

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A platform for identifying fake products across the web

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A company that makes an animated series about a pair of mischievous kittens, who’re always up to trouble. They’re a bit like the Fake News guys in their own way.

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3 years ago

A platform to help people fight back against fake news and misinformation

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3 years ago

A startup trying to solve the problem of eCommerce fake reviews, where companies can pay for positive reviews on Amazon and other platforms.

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2 years ago

A startup that detects when someone is looking at a specific webpage and lets them know, enabling them to catch up on that web page. Consider the fake Amazon page on your friend’s phone to get an idea of what this could be like.

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3 years ago

A startup backed by the government of Israel that uses artificial intelligence to sniff out fake news and propaganda online and provide granular fact-checking and narrative correction.

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A company that helps fight the spread of fake news by providing services to fact-check and verify news stories.

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2 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to distinguish between fakes and real art, helping galleries and art collectors manage their art and prevent theft.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps companies verify that an online customer reviews are real, not fake.

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Idea: Fake doesn’t want to be your go-to messaging app. The app is meant to make it more difficult for people to read your messages and for companies to

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Fake Startup Ideas

Building a product to help journalists stay safe from fake news and social engineering.

A fake account that updates you on trending topics and stories that others are talking about, but are too boring or too niche to actually care about.

A startup that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create “smart” fake profiles of people, which they can then use for marketing.

A company that builds artificial intelligence for fake news detection, and has already done work for The Washington Post, the Naval War College, and the US Army.

A way to protect your privacy by using data from social media to “unmask the real, anonymous person behind a fake account”.

A network verification tool to help businesses identify fake users on their site.

A startup that provides a way to identify fake news by tracking the amount of engagement it gets on social media.

A search engine for small businesses with “no ads, no tracking, and no fake news.”

A startup that helps people make social media accounts that do not violate Instagram’s policies with a tool to create a fake IG profile.

This startup is building an app that can detect malicious IP addresses to help you scrub out fake emails and link them to the actual source. It’s a simple way of protecting your digital information from being spoofed.

A startup that allows companies to send a message to their employees and ask them to submit a fake review to help their company look more like a “top-rated” company.

This startup, being spun out of the MIT Media Lab, is building a way to tell if a video is real by looking at the physical world around images. It uses a combination of color and motion to detect if you’re watching a real video or a fake, and is currently in early alpha.

This startup is building a toolset for identifying fake news and hoaxes on the web. It’s a service for news organizations, who can use it to filter out fake news stories and prevent them from appearing on their site.

A subscription-based service that provides fake fake recipes to help people cook healthier meals. The startup says it can help people make 300-400 meals with these fake recipes, compared to the 10-15 meals they’d make in the normal course of their day.

A startup tackling the problem of “fake news” and misinformation, which it says is a growing problem that is costing the industry billions of dollars. It’s a “quality control service” that allows news publishers to verify sources, and is currently being tested in the UK.

A system for identifying fake news that is accurate and reliable.

This is a company that is building an online network of counterfeit-resistant products that can be used to trace the provenance of a product. The company, which was founded in 2015, says they have a database of nearly 1 million genuine and fake products.

A startup that wants to use AI to identify and flag “fake news” on social media

This startup is building a way to protect the public from fake news, by offering a service that will check and verify which news stories you see on Facebook.

A platform for identifying fake products across the web

A company that makes an animated series about a pair of mischievous kittens, who’re always up to trouble. They’re a bit like the Fake News guys in their own way.

A platform to help people fight back against fake news and misinformation

A startup trying to solve the problem of eCommerce fake reviews, where companies can pay for positive reviews on Amazon and other platforms.

A startup that detects when someone is looking at a specific webpage and lets them know, enabling them to catch up on that web page. Consider the fake Amazon page on your friend’s phone to get an idea of what this could be like.

A startup backed by the government of Israel that uses artificial intelligence to sniff out fake news and propaganda online and provide granular fact-checking and narrative correction.

A company that helps fight the spread of fake news by providing services to fact-check and verify news stories.

A startup that uses machine learning to distinguish between fakes and real art, helping galleries and art collectors manage their art and prevent theft.

A startup that helps companies verify that an online customer reviews are real, not fake.

Idea: Fake doesn’t want to be your go-to messaging app. The app is meant to make it more difficult for people to read your messages and for companies to