I know I should be nice and not mention too much
about faked data.
Not exact matches
(Yes, there are some questions
about fake likes, but since I'm interested in comparative
data, we don't have to worry
about those right now.)
Executives from large technology firms could be called to appear in front of British lawmakers as they continue gathering evidence
about fake news and
data practices in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, a member of parliament (MP) told CNBC Wednesday.
Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers
data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does
about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «
fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists
about the scale of the misuse of Facebook
data for political targeting purposes.
April 2018 — Zuckerberg agrees to give testimony in front of US politicians — but continues to ignore calls to appear before UK politicians to answer questions
about the role of
fake news on its platform and the potential use of Facebook
data in the UK's Brexit referendum
The company isn't facing one scandal — it's facing two: one
about Russian disinformation and
fake news, and one
about user privacy and
data security.
[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.]
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My definition of «
data» was inclusive: the piece wove the DNC VoteBuilder
data breach, Clinton's email server, Russian hacks and
fake news into a narrative
about political
data gone bad, ending with something you might hear in a freshman philosophy class:
He was referring to Clinton's assertions during her talk that
fake news
about her was spread on Facebook, and that the Democratic Party, unlike the well - funded Republicans, did not have a sophisticated
data system.
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.
Overall, these
data show,
fake news was
about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than was real news.
She created 10
fake male profiles in order to gather
data about the women who were attracted to the kind of man she really wanted to marry.
This means caring
about your privacy, encrypting identifiable
data, and never employing
fake profiles or software bots.
However, concerns
about survey
data validity in high - stakes settings, such as the potential to
fake or coach answers, suggest that states should be cautious
about using these measures to compare schools.
Goodreads is based on
fake ratings and reviews, it's API is corrupt and defrauds consumers with false
data about books which in turn has a negative impact on sales and search placement.
We all learn fairly early that some of the most arrogant scientists can actually be (often are) right; that an unwillingness to share
data does not mean that it is
faked; that complaints
about colleagues are not usually politically motivated; that dumb ideas are not always acted upon.
The problem is the facile culture of
fake science fans who are gulled into proselytizing for somebody's political agenda, and all because they want to skip out on the work of understanding where the
data comes from and what it actually means, while still patting themselves on the back
about how intensely they love science.
He knows that he is safe, because if the
Fake Skeptics say: Warmist don't have even 0,0000000000001 % of the
data ESSENTIAL, for knowing what is the temp; would have exposed that:» their lies
about past phony GLOBAL warmings have even less
data».
The satellites tells us more than enough
about global temperature, terrestrial monitoring is a joke system, with all its unwarranted adjustments and
faked data, also it employs too many climate change advocates — just sack them all.
But it turns out that one major supplier of aluminum, Kobe Steel, has been shipping substandard aluminum and
faking the
data about the strength and durability of their aluminum.
The Obama folks did not create a
fake Facebook application that would then harvest
data about your Facebook friends.
Although Facebook said that it stopped the practice that allowed the Trump - linked firm to collect so much personal
data from the platform, the episode highlighted popular unease
about the site's obtuse privacy settings and vulnerability to scammers,
fake news merchants, and other bad actors.
As a result of their inquiry into
fake news, they are increasingly concerned
about the way big internet companies use billions of points of personal
data on individuals to target both advertising and political messages at them.
It's perhaps the most important repercussion of all the backlash
about fake news, election interference, well - being, and
data privacy: that losing talent could lead to a slow - down of innovation at Facebook that might leave the door open for a new challenger.
It could all be
fake news, but seems likely given what our other
data points suggest
about Facebook's virtual assistant ambitions.
The CEO of
data analysis firm was first questioned by the panel on February 27
about Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit campaign and their use of Facebook, as part of the committee's ongoing investigation of
fake news.
Democratic lawmakers in recent days had demanded that Facebook be more open
about what it knows and to dig more deeply into its troves of
data to analyze the propaganda effort, which the company has acknowledged involved at least 470
fake accounts created by a shadowy Russian company that spent more than $ 100,000 targeting U.S. voters.
Following a day in which the company became the focus on attention online, in print, and in Parliament and Congress for its unethical use of user
data, senior executives from the firm were then shown on camera boasting
about the use of dark methods, including honey traps,
fake news and sub-contracting with ex-spies to entrap individuals.