Sentences with phrase «by fake stories»

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Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

In particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favor.

The thread was written as a fake news story about Tesla going bankrupt, including a reference to Musk being «passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by «Teslaquilla» bottles.»

If Facebook and Google crack down on «fake news» sites, the Microsoft researcher argues, those who have an interest in generating that kind of content will find ways around the restrictions, as many already have by using visual «memes» instead of links to news stories.

As Lewis noted on Monday after his story was publicized, some publishers» articles on the story came emblazoned with fake ads — online publishers tend to just put empty boxes on their sites that are filled by ad networks, with the publisher getting a cut.

They've included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of «fake news,» a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

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 network.2

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

He said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party or creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The move comes as a response to criticism and concern that «fake news» (essentially, stories that were fabricated by shady websites to generate traffic and revenue) was so prevalent during the election, that many voters were confused as to what was true and what was just made up.

They said it was a pre-emptive strike by Satan — he wrote the fake pagan stories to exist before the gospels to try to throw people off.

Through Coutinho's agent they convinced the player to sit out with a faked injury, fed stories about Jügren Klopp having mistreated him, and capped it off by getting him to handg in a transfer request at the most damaging time possible — immediately ahead of the Liverpool's Champions League playoff.

You assume that there is a thing that can objectively be called «fake news», and that it comprises of stories containing false facts which can be disproven by fact - checking.

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..

But why can't the president enforce some laws for news agencies so every story that was proven to be misleading / wrong / fake / dis - informative has to be either retracted and apologized for (not by adding one correction line, but running a whole new correction story) or fined accordingly for disinformation of general public?

Rural people who have only had internet access for 1 - 2 years are more confused by fake news and less wary of web message rumors and stories.

«Obviously the strategy by political opponents is to bandy more of such baseless stories and falsehoods around, employing the use of fake websites, with the aim of creating disaffection for the President and his administration.

Correction Officer Byron Taylor, 32, helped other officers cover up the true nature of Spear's death by coming up with a fake story that made Spear look like the instigator, filing false Use of Force reports with the Department of Correction and repeatedly lying to the Bronx District Attorney's Office, DOC investigators and a federal grand jury said.

It's a recurring pattern: The Post breaks a story that Mayor de Blasio doesn't want to hear, and he responds by denying everything and arrogantly dismissing it as «fake news.»

Then, confronted with the email pretty conclusively demonstrating otherwise, he stuck by his story — hinting darkly that the email itself was a fake.

Most of the so called powerful media houses are owned by people who are Npp bias this has resulted in most media houses getting increasingly less diverse and these media houses using their social media bubbles twist and fake stories to the advantage of the npp.

According to him, Fadi had relied on stories already publicized by «none existing and fake» media organizations which he noted were disaster and cautioned people to be very careful what they read and accept as truth.

When we investigated what was happening, we found fake news stories about our research being predominantly shared by Twitter users within one partisan echo chamber, a large and homogeneous community of politically active users.

And despite Zuckerberg's initial assertion that it's «extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election,» Facebook is taking more steps to fight the problem — by making it easier to report fake stories, for example, and considering the addition of warning labels to stories that readers have flagged as phony.

Those fake news stories were written as clickbait, designed to draw readers to fake - news sites, where the Balkan teens made money by selling ads.

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The following site tells a story of a civilian raped by a Marine who faked PTSD and shows the coverup that we are still trying to expose.

Helmed by makeup effects maestro Gary J. Tunnicliffe, this lackluster re-telling of the Grimm fairy tale stars Jacob Smith and «Gossip Girl» Taylor Momsen as the titular characters, who wander around a bunch of painfully fake - looking indoor sets after their evil stepmother leads them into the forest and... well, you know the story.

, Eli Roth to Produce Horror Movie Based on Fake Trailer, Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Announced 19:50 — Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 52:40 — Trailer Trash: Green Lantern, The Green Hornet, Your Highness, Cowboys & Aliens 1:06:36 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catfish, We Live in Public, Kisses, The Losers, Conan, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, The Night of the Hunter, Toy Story 3, The Larry Sanders Show 1:34:00 — Junk Mail: Quidditch World Cup, Movies Overshadowed by Publicity Stunts, My Winnipeg, Movies Too Sad to Watch a Second Time, Spielberg and Tintin, Where is Chian?

The language of reality television is aptly utilized by the characters as they fake (presumably, so far) a tragic love story in order to bolster public sentiment, thus offering them «sponsorships» in the form of beneficial gifts during the Games (medicine, food, etc.) as an exchange for providing the viewers with some good TV.

You Don't Mess With the Zohan C + Starring Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, John Turturro and Emmanuelle Chriqui Directed by Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore) Rated PG - 13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and nudity Appropriate for ages 16 + The Story: Israeli counter-terrorist Zohan (Sandler) fakes his own death so that he can escape to New York City and pursue his passion: hairstyling.

The 52 page book: Forward by Abel Ferrara Essays by Nick Pinkerton, Michael Chaiken, and Sean Price Williams Photography by Eleonore Hendricks «The Story of the movie Hellaware and the Fake Horrorcore Band That Went Viral» by Michael M. Bilandic Original art by Mike Diana

Aside from all the silliness about counter-campaigns being run by disgruntled DC fanboys, and haters trying to spread fake news stories about racial assaults at screenings, it's fair to say that Black Panther has gone down an absolute storm.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the true story of Frank Abagnale, who left home as a teenager in the 1960s and survived by becoming a master of check fraud and of faking his identity.

There's a supposed love story among the explosions and the dead spots somewhere, but acting in a film as effects - heavy as this one is akin to doing voice work for animation: long hours of sitting by yourself in a fake cockpit as you scream your lines at nothing while gyros toss you around tends to hinder human tenderness and connection.

Directed by Gore Verbinski of «Pirates of the Caribbean» fame, the $ 40 million film got a C + from CinemaScore and bad publicity from Fox's viral marketing campaign, which involved planting fake news stories related to the plot of the film.

Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.

«Catfish feels fake, as if Schulman and his co-conspirators stumbled into a weird story and retroactively overcompensated by shooting bogus footage to make themselves look like suckers for the first hour.

Many of the gambits employed by directors Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2) and Chris Buck (Tarzan) work, including the naturalistic voice acting and the clever mockumentary touches, like fake archival footage with film scratches and washed - out color.

The story begins, briefly, in Sri Lanka, where three strangers are thrown together and, after being given passports belonging to those already dead, form a «fake» family to help escape a country ravaged by civil war.

Another sure thing is Ben Affleck's «Argo,» which is not only a terrific thriller but tells a true - life story sure to be enjoyed by Hollywood voters, about how the escape of a group of Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis was pulled off by a bold scheme involving the production of a fake sci - fi movie.

We can gather this by the way the entirety of the story and the characterizations of these two men come across as fake.

Most people don't write well, or hate to write or are just to busy and / or distracted to take the time to write business letters, instruction manuals, a truly good novel, copy that gets results, news stories fake or otherwise, tech manuals, spec sheets, non-fiction books on any subject, erotica, science fiction stories and books, science article, magazine articles and blog posts by the millions.

Amazon is rife with fake authors selling erotica ripped word - for - word from stories posted on Literotica, a popular and free erotic fiction site...» In fact, Maria Cruz «had 19 ebooks and two paperbacks, all of which were created by other authors and republished without their consent.»

I was so mesmerized by the tale that I faked feeling sick so I could skip church to finish the story.

These are also the guys that faked the news story that Silent Hills was 80 % done and that it was bought by MS only for it later to be seen that they cropped a picture of Silent Hills and added the MS logo but it was from a Kinect developer and they forgot to take that bit out.

Oh sure, the hoaxes got less common after the Nintendo 64 era, but we still see the odd Youtube user trying to capitalise off the stories by putting up blatantly faked videos on Youtube.

According to ArtForum, Russian intrigue continues in Ghent: «A panel that was formed to investigate a number of allegedly fake Russian avant - garde works in the exhibition «From Bosch to Tuymans: A Vital Story» at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent in Belgium — including pieces by artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky that were on loan from the Dieleghem Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Brussels - based Russian businessman and art collector Igor Toporovski — was dissolved only hours after meeting, reports Simon Hewitt of the Art Newspaper.

Talk of Frieze Masters has been the story of a fake Frans Hals, following Sotheby's revelation that a portrait by the Dutch artist that was sold to a US buyer by private treaty for # 8.4 million in 2011 has been reassessed as a fake (as reported in the Financial Times).