Sentences with phrase «other fake news»

Other fake news stories have featured major retailers, banks, or credit card companies, announcing plans to partner with one virtual currency or another.»

Stamos had advocated for investigating and disclosing information about Russian disinformation and other fake news, sometimes clashing with top executives, including Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg, the report said.

Other fake news stories have featured major retailers, banks, or credit card companies, announcing plans to partner with one virtual currency or another.

Not exact matches

While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake news, and other posts.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Bezos and the two companies he owns, Amazon and the Post, accusing them of dodging taxes or publishing «fake news,» among other things.

Internet inventor Tim Berners - Lee has urged Google, Facebook and others to combat the spread of fake news online, in an open message

The president hit his favorite highlights in the interview with Fox and Friends, criticizing CNN and NBC, among others, as «fake news,» and bragging about his electoral college win.

In a sense, what Silver is pointing out is similar to what we see in the rise of so - called «fake news» that circulates through Facebook and other social platforms — namely, a massive case of confirmation bias.

Certain themes emerge, in Google's 2016 report, on how the company is fighting bad ads and scammers: Weight - loss, payday loans, tabloid cloaking, fake news, pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, plus gambling come up time and again.

The IRA and other Russian - linked entities were also alleged by the DOJ to have spread fake news and misleading online advertising on social networks like Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr).

Some other countries, such as Germany and France, opted to administer a questionnaire on students» cultural attitudes and interest in global news, but not the «cognitive test,» which asks students to spot fake news.

«The quickest way to I think refute the fact that this surely had no impact is why do you think there would be fake news on one side or the other.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

The charges took specific aim at the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian «troll factory» which focused on sowing political discord during the 2016 election by using internet bots to spread fake news and pro-Donald Trump propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald and others have said this is one of the problems with Facebook deciding what «fake news» is.

He said that for people who routinely share fake news to their friends, Facebook will somehow warn them about the story and then show them more news stories of other viewpoints.

Facebook has been under pressure to more closely police hoaxes, fake news and other controversial content, although the concerns have had little impact on its finances.

After the president blasted CNN and the New York Times on Friday for what he called «fake news,» his press secretary excluded those outlets and several others from a briefing at the White House.

Over the past few months, we have taken action against fake accounts in France, Germany, and other countries, and we recently stated that we will no longer allow Pages that repeatedly share false news to advertise on Facebook.

Trump repeatedly called television networks CNN, NBC, and MSNBC «fake news» as the Fox & Friends hosts tried to steer him back to other questions.

Other key issues include gun laws, the opioid crisis, fake news and human trafficking.

Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance, not just engagement.

Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.

Facebook has tried other ways to stem the spread of fake news.

On the other hand, Brazil has steadily become a fake news heaven.

Most Americans (60 %) say that social media sites are partly responsible for the spread of fake news but that other media sources are more responsible.

Most Americans (65 %), on the other hand, say that «fake news» also applies to how news outlets make editorial decisions about what they choose to report.

«Fake accounts overall are a big issue because that's how a lot of the other issues that we see around fake news and foreign election interference are happening as well.&raFake accounts overall are a big issue because that's how a lot of the other issues that we see around fake news and foreign election interference are happening as well.&rafake news and foreign election interference are happening as well.»

The objective was still the same though: to buy cheap, force the coin to pump (now by spreading fake news about partnerships and other bullish signals) and then dumping at the top.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

During the 2016 election cycle, fake news sites spread like wildfire on Facebook and other social media platforms.

Tomorrow evening, Jan. 2, barring any late - breaking big news stories, ABC's 20/20 is set to air an episode featuring segments on long - term (extended) breastfeeding, as well as home birth (both with and without midwives), serial surrogates (women that have numerous babies for other women), «fake babies» (life - like dolls), and orgasmic birth.

In their analysis they suggested «that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories» from other serious outlets.

We have probably all heard or read about fake news in the last month one way or the other.

De Blasio dismissed the surge of aggressive desnudas and other costumed characters in Times Square as fake news, right before his own police commissioner admitted that cops are issuing more summonses to the scofflaw panhandlers.

Looking through his Twitter feed, we can see that he describes CNN, NYT, ABC, CBS, NBC and other news organizations as «fake news» [1][2][3][4].

Mr. Ayiku noted that fake news «is also a global crisis» and countries around the world are taking particular interest in it while others are also formulating laws to check fake news.

For this reason, combating hate speech, fake news and other forms of reporting likely to inflame passion and trigger crisis will be of critical importance to the peaceful conduct of the elections.

I can accept fake news or other forms of lying as a bad thing, but that's true whoever is doing it, and I'm very hesitant about having restrictions against it.

He won because of Facebook and its inability or unwillingness to crack down on fake news Via New York Magazine: The social network and others like it became a clearinghouse for fake news.

Adds SUNY Fredonia Journalism Prof. Mike Igoe, who like Coppola is also an attorney and former TV reporter: «Because of the concern about fake news and other things, some people see this as acceptable and a way of getting back at the media.

In contrast, other research combing national survey data with individual browser histories estimates that about 25 % of American adults (65 million) visited a fake news site in the final weeks of the election.

The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.

Some participants were first asked to read fake news articles about memory loss in older adults, and others did not.

Fake news about climate change, vaccines and other hot - button science topics has already proven to get clicks.

And in a preprint posted to the arXiv server2, they traced interactions between 4chan boards and other online communities, such as Twitter and Reddit, to examine how sites share links from known fake news sites, or from what the team calls «alternative» news sources such as RT (formerly Russia Today).

The reason I wish Dr, Greger would counter Dr. Hyman systematically, study by study, is that it begins to seem like in the political realm where each side has its own information sources and claims the other side is getting sucked in by «fake news».

Ready up on this news, the media has split up and while one believe they sold that much others do not believe that they sold that many and that it was a fake press release.

In other news, AshleyMadison was sued by ex-worker who claims she wrote too many fake female profiles.

January 19, 2018 • It will combat fake news by pushing up news articles that come from «high quality» sources, and pushing down the others.