Sentences with phrase «blatantly false stories»

Apart from being useful in stamping out blatantly false stories by requiring direct proof, defamation laws can also take aim at stories that use innuendo and sensationalism to suggest defamatory meanings.

In early November several news outlets revealed that a group of Macedonian teenagers had fooled Facebook's News Feed algorithm into promoting blatantly false stories that appealed to right - wing voters during the U.S. election.

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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.