Hearings in Congress placed a spotlight on Russia's Internet Research Agency, a troll farm that was particularly good at
creating fake stories and fomenting outrage.
Not exact matches
Although Facebook (fb) has downplayed the prevalence of
fake news on its service, it's been steadily
creating initiatives and debuting new technology to curtail bogus news
stories.
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.
These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies
created systems where
fake news
stories spread more easily than factual reports.
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.
«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.
Most of us have heard the scary
stories about someone
creating a
fake free personals ad on Craigslist so they can rob someone... or worse.
He told a
story of some bullies who
created a
fake Twitter account and posed as an official school channel, tweeting out obnoxious and hurtful things about other students.
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.»
While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to
create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here;
stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the
fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same
story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.
Veteran journalist Maggie Farley
created the game Factitious with game designer Bob Hone at American University to test users» abilities to spot the
fake news among the real
stories.
Know Your Guru By Michael Vazquez With the internet,
fake news and social media anyone can
create a persona and / or a
story and have people believing it is true.