It highlights that the rise of digital and social media has
enabled fake news to spread at an unprecedented rate and that one child in five believe everything they read online is true.
Facebook has rattled investors in recent months with a series of announcements in response the platform's role in
enabling fake news, filter bubbles and foreign meddling in the U.S. election.
For that reason, tech giants have stepped up their fight against these malicious disinformation tools, with Google recently expanding its Fact Check tool to determine fake news in search results and Facebook
enabling its fake news alert in Kenya for its election on August 8.
Not exact matches
One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and
fake news enabled by Google's platforms.
A year later, Yunji and his brother, Chen Tianshi, who is now Cambricon's CEO, teamed up to design a novel chip architecture that could
enable portable consumer devices to rival that feat — making them capable of recognizing faces, navigating roads, translating languages, spotting useful information, or identifying «
fake news.»
Facebook, along with Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL), has come under fire since the 2016 presidential election for its role in spreading
fake news,
enabling polarizing filter bubbles, and not catching Russian propaganda campaigns.
Lately it's faced harsh and continuing criticism for not doing enough to manage violent content, misinformation, and
fake news, which
enabled Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
It is being plagued by claims of bias,
fake news,
enabling Russian interference in the U.S. presidential campaign, and privacy violations by its former advertising partner, Cambridge Analytica.
«The most obvious way in which Facebook
enabled a Trump victory has been its inability (or refusal) to address the problem of hoax or
fake news,» declares New York Magazine's Max Read.