Sentences with phrase «data is fake»

There's buttons you can click, but all of the data is fake, and it's not going to be as pretty.

It is weird that you guys (again) argue that all the data is fake anyways and that there is no global warming (decline after 1980?)

Their objections to agw all lack rationality, because their real underlying objections are driven by vested interests and politics.So they clutch at any argument no matter how superfical and stupid like CO2 is plantfood, climate changed before, its a liberal conspiracy, data is fake and endless assorted nonsense.

Author retracts study of changing minds on same - sex marriage after colleague admits data were faked

So you are saying that the that observational data is faked?

Not exact matches

Data journalism expert Jonathan Albright has also spent some time mapping the right - wing alternative media ecosystem, including the connections between fringe sites that were the largest channels for «fake news» reports during the election.

Facebook is running an advertising campaign that acknowledges it has had a problem with fake news and the misuse of data and goes some way to apologizing for these issues.

The fake news element tests skills like whether a student can tell when data is being presented in a misleading way, and whether students can distinguish between facts, opinions, and propaganda.

Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.

(Yes, there are some questions about fake likes, but since I'm interested in comparative data, we don't have to worry about those right now.)

U.S. technology firms would be caught in the crossfire of a trade war, darkening the outlook for a crucial sector already under attack for accelerating the dissemination of «fake news» and failing to safeguard users» personal data.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available) it prevented $ 22.5 billion in attempted identity - theft tax fraud — but paid out $ 3.1 billion in fake refunds.

Data scientist Jeff Kao says that more than a million public comments in support of the FCC's planned rollback of net neutrality rules are likely fake.

A year ago, he agreed to do the same for money - losing Mitsubishi Motors that is struggling from a scandal of faking fuel economy test data.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

«Most reputable data firms are using proven predictive modeling techniques on an individual level, whereas Cambridge was guilty of using fancy fake science terms on unwitting politicians who do not understand how data analytics work.

Executives from large technology firms could be called to appear in front of British lawmakers as they continue gathering evidence about fake news and data practices in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, a member of parliament (MP) told CNBC Wednesday.

Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

Instead, he told me, a broader evolution had taken place in the company «across a number of these issues, whether it's foreign interference or fake news or the Cambridge Analytica data - privacy issue recently.»

Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.

BOORSTIN: Questions were n`t as limited to issues of data and privacy with a number of committee members pressing Zuckerberg on concerns of content censorship, fake news, as well as the illegal sale of opioids on the platform.

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up the earnings call by discussing the recent troubles Facebook has been going through, including fake news and «app developers and data privacy ``.

The company isn't facing one scandal — it's facing two: one about Russian disinformation and fake news, and one about user privacy and data security.

[Note: the interviews for this poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while not directly a «fake news» issue, is related to the topic.]

This fluctuation could be exploited by someone who knew the fake scare was coming, but we do not have access to the data that would allow us to know whether this happened.

If it weren't for data privacy, fake news and hate speech taking up so much air time, this year's Facebook conference would've probably centered around a far less controversial topic: augmented reality.

Through the collection of in - app data to identify certain individuals such as law enforcement officers, Greyball will show these target users that there are no Uber rides available in the area, or show mock - ups of the app with fake rides.

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«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.

«But it's clear now we didn't do enough — focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for fake news, foreign interference and hate speech, in addition to application developers and data privacy.»

btw, «I do nt know for the first 4», and «it's all fake for # 5», is not a response that provides data explaining anything...

Because CBs input the data, there is no way for fraudulent operators to show fake certificates.

This connection, however, turned out to be false and based on fake data.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but please don't use your opinion (which is an opinion — not a fact) to shame or scare people into doing or not doing something; especially if you do not have any factual evidence (as opposed to «fake» evidence — the foundation for the entire anti-vaccinne movement has been debunked as scientifically inaccurate, so there is no data which backs up the claim that vaccines cause autism) to back up your stance.

Executives at Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on digital ads for President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, were caught on camera suggesting that the firm could use sex workers, bribes, ex-spies and fake news to help candidates win votes around the world, a new investigation has revealed.

My definition of «data» was inclusive: the piece wove the DNC VoteBuilder data breach, Clinton's email server, Russian hacks and fake news into a narrative about political data gone bad, ending with something you might hear in a freshman philosophy class:

He was referring to Clinton's assertions during her talk that fake news about her was spread on Facebook, and that the Democratic Party, unlike the well - funded Republicans, did not have a sophisticated data system.

In prepared testimony released Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which he is expected to deliver Wednesday, Zuckerberg apologizes for fake news, hate speech, a lack of data privacy and Russian social media interference in the 2016 elections.

A former postdoctoral researcher who worked in the lab of a promising stem cell biologist engaged in scientific misconduct, faking images and other data in two papers that were later retracted, according to U.S. government investigators.

► On Wednesday, David Malakoff reported that «[a] political science graduate student accused of faking data behind a recent Science paper on gay marriage is preparing to offer a defense «at my earliest opportunity,» according to statements posted on his Twitter account.

Matthew Evans is responsible for placing fake signals into LIGO data to test the system - so he knew right away that the gravitational wave signal wasn't a test

Unsurprisingly, faking data was deemed never acceptable.

Then they used the original team's model to analyse this fake data, and were still able to see a spurious 3.24 - day signal — even though there were no planets to be found.

Hayes argues that when Sir Cyril Burt was shown to have faked much of his data on IQ and twins, the impact was less than you might have expected.

Further, they are highly visible as allies of the activists and residents, and that visibility makes them an easy target; hence, they won't fake data or let laypeople do so.

Hwang later admitted faking data to make the papers look better but claimed that a colleague duped him into thinking that the cell lines were genuine.

I know I should be nice and not mention too much about faked data.