Sentences with phrase «dismissing fake news»

I've said this already — but I think at this point that I clearly made a mistake by just dismissing fake news as «crazy» — as having an impact.

I've said this already, but I think at this point that I clearly made a mistake by just dismissing fake news as «crazy,» as having an impact.

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The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

After initially dismissing the issue of fake news and its role in distributing it, Facebook recently started working with third - party fact - checking groups and is now flagging stories that have been called into question or whose accuracy has been disputed.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as «fake news,» a «hoax» and a «witch hunt.»

Trump has dismissed the allegations as «fake news,» while attempting to refocus attention on leaks of information to the media.

Long before Trump, plutocratic politicians were dismissing bad press by crying «fake news.»

That same month, Mr. Zuckerberg publicly dismissed the notion that fake news influenced the 2016 election, calling it a «pretty crazy idea.»

At a conference days after the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg dismisses concerns about Facebook's role in its outcome: «Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it's a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.»

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.

Essentially, Khedira dismissed any notion that he knows what Can is set to do this summer, mocking the report by suggesting that he has a long - lost twin brother as well as using the «fake news» hashtag to make his point.

When asked about this episode today, Castro dismisses it as fake news and political play by his adversaries to make him look bad.

De Blasio dismissed the surge of aggressive desnudas and other costumed characters in Times Square as fake news, right before his own police commissioner admitted that cops are issuing more summonses to the scofflaw panhandlers.

Hours after Trump dismissed reports that his campaign associates were being scrutinized for colluding with Russia as «fake news,» FBI Director James Comey confirmed the investigation is real.

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.»

Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as «crazy» the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled the youthful tech billionaire aside and delivered what he hoped would be a wake - up call.

Virtually everything Trump disagrees with is dismissed as «fake news».

Before they went mainstream, Before the Internet, there were personal ads, An advert for an online dating service has been banned after its scientific claims were dismissed as little more than fake news.

An advert for an online dating service has been banned after its scientific claims were dismissed as little more than fake news.

This was quickly dismissed by 343 Industries Frank O'Connor who called the tweet in question «Fake News.»

He also said he had been «too flippant» in 2016 when he dismissed the idea that fake news could influence an election as «crazy.»

Days after the 2016 presidential election, he dismissed concerns that the dissemination of fake news on social media influenced the outcome of the election, telling an audience at a technology conference that it was a «pretty crazy idea.»

Rory Cellan Jones, BBC: You — back in November 2016, when you could say this crisis began — dismissed as «crazy» the idea that fake news could influence the election, and more recently here in the UK you've turned down an invitation to speak to our parliamentarians in the House of Commons, just as we learn tonight that 1 million UK users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

But they were very sophisticated, and it would be a mistake to assume that you can ever fully solve a problem like this, or think that they are going to give up and stop doing what they are doing.Rory Cellan Jones, BBC: You, back in November 2016 when you could say this crisis began, dismissed as crazy the idea that fake news could influence the election, and more recently here in the UK you've turned down an invitation to speak to our Parliamentarians in the House of Commons, just as we learn tonight that 1 million UK users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

Zuckerberg said Wednesday it was a mistake to dismiss the impact of fake news as «crazy,» which he infamously did two days after the election.

He added, however, that he had made a mistake in 2016 by dismissing the notion that fake news had influenced the US Presidential election.

Refusing to dismiss it as fake news, the CEO asks how Alexa, who's not a real person, could possibly have an issue with her vocal cords.