Sentences with phrase «fake claims of»

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By claiming the electronics they ordered had shown up damaged, the couple scored GoPro cameras, Xbox game consoles, Samsung smartwatches, and Microsoft Surface tablets by creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimes.

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

Warren also called for a criminal investigation of Stumpf, claiming that both the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission should look into whether the CEO knowingly misled investors by not disclosing the opening of the fake accounts in financial statements.

Pfizer (pfe), and at least one major newspaper, got fooled by a fake press release claiming the company would no longer increase the prices of its drugs.

These clearly fake claims were quickly called out by other Twitter users, many of whom were able to use reverse image searches to show that the online trolls were using stock photos and other misleading images as «proof» of alleged attacks against white patrons perpetrated by black moviegoers.

«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the social impact of technology, said of a recent post on Facebook.

According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

The family of Ryan Straschnitzki is angry over what appears to be another fake social media account claiming to be tied to the Humboldt Broncos hockey player.

That's because famed brief seller Citron Research recently disclosed the brief position in Riot, job the convene «full mania» and accusing it of «making fake claims to investors.»

This meaning is taken from the context of his immediate reply, just as if you said to «what you do, you do because of you mother» my reply being, «you can insult me or my brother and be forgiven but insult my mother and you won't ever be (of course I'm a moral and would because my mother is not the Holy Spirit) if you said a pastor's claimed miracle is fake «He isn't the Holy Spirit» remember Jesus being the son of God (no pastor has His status) said you can be forgiven if you blaspheme me.

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

All of this just adds to the problem of church becoming so fake and shallow all the while claiming they are so deep and pious.

President Trump has seen criticism from those who say he underdelivered on promises to start building the US - Mexico border wall, his fake news claims are dangerous to the media and his careless use of Twitter.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

I sometimes wonder if he's faking it, knowing that he has to claim to be a member of one of the Christian denominations in order to win the presidency.

Karl Rove claims to have photo's of President Obama helping bury fake dinosauer bones all over the world to fool people.

Earlier this year Penfolds refuted claims that at least 80 % of Penfolds wine sold online in China is fake, after an exposé written by a social media opinion leader called «Lady Penguin», whose real name is Wang Shenghan, went viral.

A fake Twitter account had been set - up pretending to be David Ornstein, which claimed that our club had a bid of # 70 Million rejected for the Atletico forward's signature, but we know better than to fall for an unofficial account...

Who could possibly be so heartless as to claim that the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting are actors faking their distress?

In the wake of newspaper reports detailing the massive increase in UK liability claims as a result of injured and dead babies, Australian midwife Hannah Dahlen declared that the dead babies were «fake news.»

He accused the media of «fake diversity,» claiming that if they put a black person on screen or have a single gay character in a drama then producers regard that as sufficient to satisfy diversity requirements.

The Tamale North MP, who was discussing the leaked Kwesi Botch report, claimed that media is publishing a fake version of the report.

Following claims that a number of the teachers in the country employed by the Ghana Education Service presented fake certificates, The Audit Department and the Controller and Accountant General's Department, were validating the documents before payments are made.

It also claimed that a Cambridge Analytica executive told the undercover reporters, «We're not in the business of fake news, we're not in the business of lying, making stuff up, and we're not in the business of entrapment... There are companies that do this but to me that crosses a line.»

The Ghanaian source of the information told me that this gay brouhaha began with the planting of a fake story in a national newspaper which claimed that 8000 people came out as gay and registered themselves with a United States - funded NGO in Western Ghana.

Bentivolio and his lawyer are claiming that Rocky Raczkowski — another Republican in the crowded primary field for what could be one of the nation's most hotly contested House races in November — has a history of waging a «malicious defamation campaign... telling multiple third parties that Bentivolio's military record is fraudulent and fake,» the Detroit Free Press reported.

The flag bearer of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has denied claims by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana that his doctorate degree is fake.

Recall that an ex-deputy governor of the bank, Obadiah Mailafia, recently claimed that the rate of fake currency is 20 percent.

«The unfortunate implication of the fabricated claim of the said former official of the Bank, is that it gives the false impression that two bills out of every ten Naira pieces held by an individual is «fake».

«To further deceive Giese, he swore to a fictitious «Affidavit of claim of Federal High Court of Nigeria» deposed to by a fake Justice Ibrahim Auta, OFR, on behalf of Giese.

From the copies of the various suits against Anas Aremeyaw Anas and / or his fake company, Tiger Eye PI, (Enclosed herein are copies of the writs), they are facing claims for damages for defamation, damages for invasion of privacy etc..

---------------------------- State Senator Jim Seward announced senate passage of a legislation that targets criminals who stage auto accidents & fake injuries in order to collect on false insurance claims.

The member of Parliament for Assin North Hon. Kennedy Agyepong has described the Agric Minister Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto's claim that his sector (agric sector) has created 750,000 new jobs as fake and misleading.

Wall Street Journal Editor - in - Chief Gerard Baker defended his paper's coverage of Trump during a staff town hall and said it would be «fake news» to claim the publication hasn't been tough enough, according to Journal sources.

Claims of election fraud are being investigated by police after fake election pamphlets were reportedly handed out in the name of a candidate.

Mr. Schneiderman said in a press release issued Wednesday that his office has received «a number of reports» about fake agents claiming to be with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demanding money from immigrants.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses North Korea's missile launch, the GOP tax plan in the senate, Schumer and Pelosi pulling out of a meeting with Trump, and Trump's claim that a taped conversation of him is fake.

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

Overall, the figure falls to 53 %, with just 21 % of Democrats buying in to the «fake news» claims.

James McClelland, chief of staff to Republican - turned - Democrat Councilman Peter Koo, of Flushing, said Halloran's claim that he could steer $ 80,000 of city money to a fake company set up by the FBI seemed far - fetched.

In a related sense, Berinsky thinks, solutions to matters of truth and falsehood in the current — and highly polarized — political moment may need to have a similar partisan structure, due to the blizzard of claims and counterclaims about truth, falsehoods, «fake news,» and more.

The art world is in uproar over a portrait claimed to be of Shakespeare, but how do you tell the masterpieces from the fakes?

At the time of his arrest, Oswald claimed the photo was fake.

In at least one case, the authors of a retracted article claim they didn't use an agency and did not propose fake reviewers — which suggests the journal's editors invited the fake review instead.

Eight years after South Korean stem cell scientists were exposed in one of the biggest scientific frauds ever, a paper claiming to have achieved work they faked is itself under investigation.

The ads claim that NIH is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to traumatize «baby monkeys by tearing them away from their mothers at birth, scaring them with loud noises and fake snakes, and addicting them to alcohol.»

Several of them claim fake scientific credentials.

There has been a lot of controversy in recent years over honeys that claim to be «real» Manuka honey with active anti-bacterial properties but they have in fact been found out to be fakes.

Another characteristic of most of these fake blogs is that they will usually claim that they used a «2 - step process» to lose some made up weight loss number like 52 lbs in only 21 days.