Snapchat has had to go to great lengths to teach news outlets how to make Discover channels for Gen Z. And Facebook is reckoning with how much damage can be
done with fake news.
Not exact matches
He didn't mention that the company will start asking for people's input — as TechCrunch said, it's a bit odd, since it's the users who are flooding the social network
with fake news to begin
with.
«I don't utter [the term] «
fake news,»» Conway said, adding that her concern is instead
with «incomplete coverage» of the president.
And the reason why has everything to
do with Facebook, YouTube,
fake news, and Logan Paul.
Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data
with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate
fake news like it
does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor
news balance, not just engagement.
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.
Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading
news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of
fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to
do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings
with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
The abuse you refer to makes lying so easy and when the liar is caught all he has to
do is shout «
fake news» (eg: Kenney calling Notley's fight
with Horgan the «
fake dispute
with Victoria») and his supporters believe him.
Along
with advocating for better education in schools regarding reading the
news, Cook says that companies like Apple have to
do their part to walk the line between preventing
fake news and censoring free speech.
Now we have protests because of
fake news stories about «hands up don't shoot» misconstrued
with the honor that should be shown for our flag and National Anthem.
Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James
did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «
fake»
news or to provide certain outlets
with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only
does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions
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Wenger is making every Gunners fans sick and tired of watching our game
with his
fake news about transfers and performance this season... He has to go to the market before it close so we can get back to our stand and we'll be happy coz we love him and the club but he
does nt see that as a geniue reason after lot of toothless seasons... God bless Arsenal
The writers and producers wanted to address the changes in the Trump era, and have
done that
with episodes about
fake news, a firm that was looking to hire more Trump - friendly representation, and one about censorship that was inspired by a «Law & Order: SVU» episode based on the President that has yet to air.
So I think again that
with the proliferation and democratization of technology and information, information, especially in these world of
fake news and journalism under fire and truth seemingly being malleable, I think it's so important to have people like RBSS who are fighting for the truth and are exposing the truth and that's what we have to
do.
In our digital world, where anyone
with a little know - how can post unverified stories online and frame them as fact, when solid web design can make an advertisement seem like an article, and the question of what is and what is not «
fake news» seems to come up on a daily basis, how
do young people — «digital natives» — vet all the information in front of them?
There's still a lot to
do with Twitter, Pinterest,
fake news...
The reality is, students don't graduate
with high - paying salaries; that's
fake news.
There's no struggling to produce units as some would suggest ms are suffering
with and there is no
fake supply shortage to boost demand / hype as certain manufacturers have
done in the past to hit the
news headlines as it's a very different world now and having more units out there in the hands of gamers will
do more for publicity than any of those old tired stunts could.
Propaganda is when your boy screams «
fake news» for everything he doesn't like, I'm sure you're actually okay
with his propaganda.
While social media and other websites are in part responsible for the rise in
fake news and
do need to exercise more control, it is important to know we already have plenty of legal remedies available in Canada to deal adequately
with authors of
fake news.
It's not specifically saying this has anything to
do with stopping the spread of
fake news from virulent racists, politically active conspiracy theorists or propaganda farms successfully goading our country into tearing itself apart.
If only Facebook put as much effort into policing
fake news as it
does actively stomping on the face of free speech in the form of human sexuality, enforcing extreme, antiquated notions of puritanism
with its exacting sex censorship.
«
With all of the
fake news you see out there, people didn't know where to turn to.
Much of the outrage at Facebook in recent weeks has focused on our discomfort
with the company's data - privacy practices, though it also has a lot to
do with an ambient anger toward the company that has simmered since the aftermath of the 2016 election, during which Facebook inadvertently abetted malicious
fake news and a Russian disinformation campaign.
And the reason why has everything to
do with Facebook, YouTube,
fake news, and Logan Paul.
In a wide - ranging interview on Vox's The Ezra Klein Show podcast, Zuckerberg discussed election interference, the handling of user data and privacy, the proliferation of
fake news, and what to
do when your company —
with more than 2 billion users — reaches a size and scale where the consequences for failure have a massive impact.
On a recent episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask
with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode, Brian Stelter, the senior media correspondent at CNN, stopped in to try to answer the question, «What can we
do about «
fake news?
Catalyzed by the
fake news scandals surrounding the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg first laid the groundwork
with his 6,000 - word community letter on «Building Community,» which focused on what Facebook could
do to help.
As an influential filmmaker active in the Trump - era (Steven Spielberg, for example, made The Post in record time just to make a point about a Republican President at war
with the press), how
do the socio - political realities, the rise of the Far Right, the systematic dissemination of
fake news, the cultural reckoning in America etc. affect the stories he chooses to tell?
With tackling «
fake news» at the top of Zuckerberg's to -
do list, he might consider currencies a good way of both rewarding decent content and punishing abusive posts or misleading
news.
«They took zero journalistic approach to their reporting,» Ogden said, «which is funny because they tout themselves as «truth journalism» and are the first to attack mass media, calling articles they don't agree
with «
fake news.»»
Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data
with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate
fake news like it
does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor
news balance, not just engagement.