Sentences with phrase «at deceiving the public»

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The agreement was part of a settlement following charges that Facebook «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» the FTC said in a news release at the time.

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

We have been deceived for a long time,» Odiasempa stated at a public gathering.

The organisation further described Umeh's action as a propaganda calculated at deceiving the general public that Ekwunife had been disqualified by the Appeal Court from contesting the senatorial election for Anambra Central district.

Louis Pasteur's laboratory notebooks reveal that the famous French chemist deliberately deceived his colleagues and the public in some of his most celebrated experiments, according to Gerald Geison, a historian at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University shows in the HBO documentary «The Weight of the Nation» how the marketing industry along with the FOOD industry are DECEIVING the public.

We'll start with the fact that there is [sic] essentially four kinds of penny stock companies in the Pump & Dump world: (1) the kind where the management is in on the scam and is directly knowledgeable and complicit with the intent to deceive the public; (2) the kind where some poor schmoe has a great idea (at least he thinks it is) that requires financing, and becomes the mark of a parasitic «funder» who makes all kinds of promises of unlimited monies and riches beyond the mark's wildest dream; (3) the kind where the company is absolutely for real but the shares have been hyped (sometimes hijacked) into ridiculous valuations; and, (4) a hijacked empty and inactive shell.

This action has garnered some negative feedback stating that removing the breed label would be a safety issue, deceiving the public, and put the city at risk of liability.

«Attorney General Healey similarly echoed themes from the strategy Mr. Pawa developed at La Jolla... Attorney General Healey announced that those who «deceived» the public «should be, must be, held accountable.»

The Government's Amended Complaint describes a four - decade long conspiracy, dating back to at least 1953, to intentionally and willfully deceive and mislead the American public about, inter alia, the harmful nature of tobacco products, the addictive nature of nicotine, and harmfulness of low tar cigarettes.

Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.

Theo Goodwin says: June 16, 2011 at 2:49 pm «The moral wrongness is in his willingness to beat the drum for ideas that are designed to deceive an uninformed public and to promote a political agenda using false claims under the good name of science.

Tim Flannery, a scientist and former director of the Australian government's Climate Commission, accused Lomborg and prime minister Tony Abbott's government of an «ideological attempt at deceiving the Australian public.»

william, setting aside «the whole human race is responsible for climate change», there are clearly some subsets of the human race which are more responsible than others... with those who have profited off it, and used those profits to deceive the public about it, being at the top of the list.

There are lots of interests at stake here, and those in the best position to play games and deceive the public are not climate scientists.

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

That's why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is: part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors — all in order to ban abortion and prevent women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood.

Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our patients, which is why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is — part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors, all in order to ban abortion and cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood,» said Eric Ferrero, Vice President for Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.