Sentences with phrase «election news stories»

In their analysis they suggested «that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories» from other serious outlets.

Facebook's come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump's victory.

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It mostly contradicts the way they covered the election while it was underway [and] it puts a fair amount of emphasis on news events such as the Comey letter, which leads to questions about how those stories were covered.

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.

According to an excerpt from «Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump» by Yahoo News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Trump had eagerly hoped Putin would attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that Trump hosted in the Russian capital.

«You know, personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,» he told Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

Defending Facebook against charges that its algorithm promoted fake news stories that may have influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg implied that the company can only go so far without compromising on its commitment to neutrality.

«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.

They found that the proportion of «professional to junk news» was «roughly one - to - one,» and that «fully 46.5 % of all content presented as news» about politics and the election fell under «the definition of propaganda» when unverified WikiLeaks content and Russian - origin news stories were factored in.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

And, indeed, some of the commentary around this news story has queried the value of the entire exposé by suggesting CA's psychometric targeting wasn't very effective — ergo, it may not have had a significant impact on the US election.

During the 2017 polls, 90 % of Kenyans had heard or seen fake news stories related to the election, with a cross-section of the population using popular apps like WhatsApp and Facebook to spread misinformation.

Instead, the complaint says, Cohen waited until October 2016 — when Trump faced the prospect of a news story about his marital infidelity landing shortly before the election.

Fox News knew about the Daniels story in October 2016, before the election, but decided not to report on it.

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

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.

Interviewed by Meredith MacLeod of The Hamilton Spectator News for a story relating to candidate slates within political elections, September 4, 2014.

Other reports have suggested that multiple news outlets, including Fox News and Slate, had the story before the 2016 election and didn't report or publishnews outlets, including Fox News and Slate, had the story before the 2016 election and didn't report or publishNews and Slate, had the story before the 2016 election and didn't report or publish it.

The news is rife with election year stories about angry evangelicals who are determined to set America back on track.

Judging from the news stories following the election, many of his supporters appear to have had the same reaction — with no sense that the condescension inherent in their candidate's statement helps illuminate the reasons for the election results.

The media has lost any semblance of balance, fairness, and reporting the news as they now look to create news, mostly «news» regarding negative stories about conservatives based on lies, rumor and innuendo, such as the alleged McCain affair that the NYTimes ran shortly before the election, or the obviously forged National Guard docs about Bush CBS ran shortly before he was re-elected.

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.

Asked what content judges looked at from her extensive portfolio, Rosie said: «Things around the US election, some of my «Taboo or to do» features which have been really good fun, lots of breaking news stories which have been quite hard.

As news coverage switched to the turnout battle in the last weeks of the elections, many stories discussed the Republicans» voter - mobilization machine and the Democrats» efforts to match it.

According to a news story on CBS in Chicago there was a judgeship worth $ 180,000 in the Cook County judicial subcircuit that was up for grabs in the November 8th 2016 election and it was uncontested.

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The last year was filled with significant news stories in New York like Occupy Wall Street, the election of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the passage of the gay marriage law, and the Zadroga 9/11 Healthcare Act.

This election, declared Democratic challenger Bernie Tolbert used a weekend story in the Buffalo News about 22 deaths in the Erie County Holding Center to go after Howard.

These polls obviously add another chapter to the litany of bad news stories for the Labour Party, with this analysis suggesting that the party would struggle to retain Dail representation after the next general election should support levels at that contest exactly match the party / grouping support levels measured by this poll.

American Television Network, Cable News Network (CNN) has succumbed to pressure from Ghanaians and amended the misleading parts of its story on Ghana's recently held elections.

This year has been a vintage one, beginning as it did with news of Labour's near # 600 bill for chicken suits and continuing with the more serious story of Conservative election spending.

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Albuquerque mayor election.

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known false news stories that appeared in the three months before the election, those favoring Trump were shared a total of 30 million times on Facebook, while those favoring Clinton were shared eight million times;

We have read a news story with a screaming headline: ACEP AGAINST SECOND KARPOWER published by the media, and after digesting the arguments put forward by the think - tank and noticing the half - truths therein, we firmly conclude, that ACEP is engaging in politics to score cheap political points for the NPP flagbearer, in this election.

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1) The Journal News burns down their own empire — While the county executive election will have more impact on Rockland County's future, the biggest story of the year was the infamous Journal News gun map listing the names of residents who own pistol permits on an interactive map.

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Buffalo mayoral election.

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Maryland governor election 2018.

According to this news story, on May 14, the 3 - judge U.S. District Court hearing Somers v South Carolina Election Commission orally ruled after the hearing that no relief can be granted to the candidates left off the June 12 primary ballot.

David Lammy: «After the general election, you would forge common alliance with parties that you can actually do business with, and the SNP must be part of that story» (ITV News, 20 April 2015).

Those «stories» and other falsified news outperformed much of the real news on Facebook before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In early November several news outlets revealed that a group of Macedonian teenagers had fooled Facebook's News Feed algorithm into promoting blatantly false stories that appealed to right - wing voters during the U.S. electnews outlets revealed that a group of Macedonian teenagers had fooled Facebook's News Feed algorithm into promoting blatantly false stories that appealed to right - wing voters during the U.S. electNews Feed algorithm into promoting blatantly false stories that appealed to right - wing voters during the U.S. election.

Here it is, the news you've been waiting for since Ryan Murphy announced that the next season of American Horror Story would be inspired by the 2016 presidential election.

Marriage equality, refugees seeking safety in Europe, the Confederate flag, police shootings of black and Latino men, the presidential election, Caitlyn Jenner, ISIS, and immigration are just a few of the news stories that inhabited the headlines this year on our phones, laptops, and newspapers.

Strategies for teaching about the election Teachers across the United States are using news stories about the upcoming national election as a timely lesson in citizenship.

CNN's Brian Stelter wondered whether election coverage had crowded out stories about Standing Rock, saying, «It received sort of on - and - off attention from the national media,» and, oftentimes, coverage «seemed to fall off the national news media's radar.»