Sentences with phrase «while fake news»

Some critics take a cynical approach, saying Facebook cracks down harder on that stuff because it scares away advertisers, while fake news actually brings in dollars.

Misinformation can still go viral, while fake news writers can simply change URLs to avoid the «disputed» tag for their debunked content.

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.

In today's age of fake news, it probably doesn't come as a huge shock to you that false information might end up on the internet, but while posting utter nonsense has sadly come to be expected in the political realm, it's somewhat less expected in business reporting.

While Google's 2016 report makes no mention of fake news, these types of ads also fall under the category of «misleading.»

Trump, just back from a trip to Asia, attacked the news network again on Wednesday morning, writing on Twitter: «While in the Philippines I was forced to watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and FAKE, it is.

But while Facebook eventually acknowledged that fake news and disinformation did in fact pose a threat, Zuckerberg reportedly told Obama that there was no easy fix and claimed the messages were not widespread on Facebook.

Facebook is working with fact - checking companies to highlight questionable stories as «disputed» and letting users mark posts as «fake news,» while Twitter has changed its default profile image from an egg to a human head silhouette, partly to reduce trolling, it said Friday in a blog post.

While the social network has made some tools available to better detect fake news and misinformation, it's long left the ultimate responsibility up to users.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

In 2014, while he was doing a fellowship at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Silverman launched a web - based startup called Emergent.info that was devoted to crowdsourcing the fact - checking of fake news.

Trump has dismissed the allegations as «fake news,» while attempting to refocus attention on leaks of information to the media.

While Facebook has so far consistently refused to implement tools that block fake news (and some, including technology analyst Ben Thompson of Stratechery, argue that it should not), Twitter is now stuck between a rock and a hard place, trying to determine what is permissible speech and what is not.

The aide expressed frustration at the way the tariffs have been characterized, referring repeatedly to the» fake news,» the lobbyists and the» swamp things» that he said exaggerated the ill effects while fighting the measures.

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The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of «fake news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

Perhaps the most common sentiment was laid out by Zeynep Tufekci in the New York Times: Facebook should eliminate fake news and the filter effect — the tendency to see news you already agree with — while they're at it.

First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any of this; while the company denies this report in Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social netwoNews Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social netwonews stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2

Here's Trump ranting about the fake news media while the Fox & Friends desperately try to get him to talk about something else.

Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has said she is looking for ways to foster cultural diversity, while protecting the political process from the type of fake news that had a large impact on the recent U.S. election.

[Note: the interviews for this poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while not directly a «fake news» issue, is related to the topic.]

While there's no easy answer in sight, local startups and digital strategists including Nendo have been trying to figure out how to help clients and companies deal with fake news.

But while the majority of UK journalists agree fake news is making people more sceptical about the content they read, a startling 93 % are unsure what it means for their publication — or think its impact has been «neutral».

then we can have real news for a while, followed by real practices, which will lead to real / fake games in August.

And creating so many fake false news that his fundamental mental unfitness for the job was glossed over while media debated his fakes and lies.

Trump accused the «dishonest press» of avoiding coverage of terror attacks during a Monday speech — just hours after blasting reports of negative poll ratings as «fake news» while insisting he's in charge at the White House.

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.

«Fake news is the same as terrorism as well as any epidemic that we see», Mr. Ayiku stated while contributing to an international press forum Wednesday, May 2 at the Accra International Press Center.

The post also went on to list 10 Trump administration's major successes, adding «while the media spent 90 per cent of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results».

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Social media footsoldiers of the ruling New Patriotic Party government have, in the past few days been circulating a story from a fake news website which alleges that the former Chief of Staff has been banned from travelling to seven western countries because of his involvement in visa racketeering while he was the Chief of Staff.

Trump continually and proudly uses the term «fake news» simply because, like his supporters, he delights in the fact that it was the Clinton campaign and the leftist media themselves who first started using the term (in recent history) back in the fall of 2016 while concurrently indulging in it themselves.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry also flagged what she described as «fake news» that Mr Corbyn did not support nuclear power as contributing to the defeat, while Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald also attacked the New Labour figures.

Each character is armed with a special weapon: Clinton, for example, can hurl a bottle of prescription pills at her enemies, while faux news show host Jon Stewart can toss fellow fake newsman Stephen Colbert at opponents.

Players build audiences for their fake news sites by publishing polarising falsehoods, deploying twitter bots, photo - shopping evidence, and inciting conspiracy theories in the wake of public tragedy — all while maintaining a «credibility score» to remain as persuasive as possible.

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.

Young ones will like the Pull My Finger game while the older crowd will have fun (and learn new things) with the Fake News or Not Game.

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While The Post's political viewpoint is entirely agreeable and necessary, particularly in this era of idiocy such as «Fake News» and other Trumpian rhetoric, it's misleading to say this is a great film because what it says is true.

While important work still needs to be done to examine the effectiveness of this particular technique for reducing policy misconceptions, we believe the policymakers could benefit from this research to assure that individuals» acceptance or resistance to a policy is based on accurate conceptions and not «fake news.»

I spoke with my students about Mary Beth Hertz's Edutopia post «Battling Fake News in the Classroom,» and I sensed that many of my students, while skilled at what Hertz fittingly calls «crap detection,» were still deeply troubled by what they characterized as a growing public aversion to the truth.

The skills students acquire while studying the topic of fake news empower them to critically assess media.

While political fake news stories abound, there are also plenty of non-political stories.

«Checks and balances» in an era of fake news — tech companies are becoming like publishers, Michiel Kolman says in Brussels, while publishers are becoming more like tech companies.

While technically accurate, these reports appeared to be intentionally misleading and, as a result, verging on fake news.

The majority of the artists deal directly with the political topics of migration, fake news, discrimination and bureaucracy, while others engage with the potential presented to you when using language in alternative ways.

Journalism is experiencing a crisis of confidence as of late, with long - running mainstream sources being labeled «fake news,» while extremist propaganda mills are hailed as harbingers of the truth.

That sort of agreement is not pushed in a democracy, it is pushed in a fake news misinformation environment where critics are said to deny something they don't deny, while being portrayed as corrupted when they are not, concerning a situation portrayed to be a problem under false premises, where zero rebuttal is permitted by those pushing this so - called agreement.

While social media and other websites are in part responsible for the rise in fake news and do need to exercise more control, it is important to know we already have plenty of legal remedies available in Canada to deal adequately with authors of fake news.

Facebook has been fighting fake news for a while now, ranking «trusted» sources and demoting «engagement bait» stories.