Srinagar, Dec. 18 -- We live in a world where a single tweet can cause stock markets to ripple, conspiracy theories can trend within hours, and fabricated videos can mislead millions. While it's easy to blame technology, it's also technology-specifically, mathematics-that is now being used to fight back against this tidal wave of misinformation.

Behind the glossy interfaces of Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and TikTok are mathematical models trained to detect patterns, analyse behaviour, and flag content that may be harmful or false. Using statistics, graph theory, and probability, these algorithms are now the digital world's undercover detectives.

Statistics helps machines detect the unusual.

Example: Detecting Fake News Hea...