Sentences with phrase «between false news»

In a statement seen by The Daily Caller News Foundation, Facebook said: «There's a difference between false news and satire.

Facebook acknowledged there is a «fine line between false news and satire or opinion,» and therefore it will not remove false news from the site but it will reduce its distribution by placing it lower in the News Feed.

Not exact matches

The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false «rumor cascades,» on Twitter between September 2006 and December 2016.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

Agreed in the literal sense, but semantically there's a subtle distinction between «fake» and «false»; Trump mostly seems to be targetting non-stories, i.e. deceptive tactics that are intended to mislead, rather than outright falsehoods: inviting panels of biased «experts»; cutting people off after asking a loaded question; making news stories out of out - of - context soundbytes or by association, etc..

«When we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood, «says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.

Roy adds that the researchers were «somewhere between surprised and stunned» at the different trajectories of true and false news on Twitter.

«Every elementary teacher, history teacher, science teacher, and English teacher should engage learners in activities in which they distinguish between real and fake news, reputable social media posts and disreputable ones, credible author credentials and false ones, hard news or op - eds,» writes Todd Finley (@finleyt) in Greenville, North Carolina.

Autism Awareness Month isn't as full of news stories about autism with false balance between science and antivaccine pseudoscience advocates as it was in years past.