Sentences with phrase «fake election news»

BuzzFeed and other news sites began publishing reports about how a small town in Macedonia turned fake election news into a cottage industry.

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.

Not exact matches

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.

Facebook had also failed to prevent the spread of fake news on its service in prelude to the 2016 presidential elections.

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.

Current controversies over «fake news,» Russian interference in the election, and bias in online news all underscore the fact that Google and Facebook have replaced traditional media in providing many people the information they need to be effective citizens.

But with great power comes great responsibility, which Facebook has learned devastatingly quickly as the social network found itself as a battleground of trolls and fake news during (and well after) the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Data journalism expert Jonathan Albright has also spent some time mapping the right - wing alternative media ecosystem, including the connections between fringe sites that were the largest channels for «fake news» reports during the election.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

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.

Since his election, President Trump has repeated «Make America Great Again» and «fake news» in nearly every speech and press conference he has been in.

When accusations were flying at Facebook for allegedly helping spread fake news about the 2016 US election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by saying the idea that Facebook had any serious impact on the election was a «crazy» one.

Facebook also has faced criticisms over a deluge of fake news and Russian election interference.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

President Donald Trump lashed out at the «Fake News Media» in a series of tweets Saturday in which he distanced himself from special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

«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.»

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

These include the spread of fake news by Russian trolls and the alleged exploitation of Facebook user data by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The charges took specific aim at the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian «troll factory» which focused on sowing political discord during the 2016 election by using internet bots to spread fake news and pro-Donald Trump propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

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.

However, Zuckerberg also said Facebook hasn't done enough to prevent harmful use of its own tools in regards to issues including fake news, election interference, hate speech and privacy concerns.

Mark Zuckerberg at first said the percentage of fake news on the platform was tiny, and called the idea that it influenced the election «crazy.»

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

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.»

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

According to TechCrunch, Snowden said he doubted fake news on Facebook had the power to skew the election in Donald Trump's favor, a criticism the platform has faced following the candidate's win, which surprised pollsters and journalists.

«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.

The «fake news» revelations of the 2016 election have forced social platforms to take greater responsibility for publishing decisions.

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

A Channel 4 News undercover investigation shows Cambridge Analytica execs boasting about their ability to secretly influence elections using their analytics service and even using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers to reach their goals.

This, he says, goes for fake news, foreign elections interference, hate speech and data privacy.

But Snap hopes a greater human element will help differentiate it from larger rival Facebook, whose own algorithms have created all sorts of controversies revolving around fake news, ad targeting, and election meddling.

Clearly Moscow's use of the platform to spread fake news and warp the 2016 elections is one problem.

I actually tend to agree with Zuckerberg's post-election comment — which he since apologized for — that it was «crazy» to think that «Fake News» influenced the election; my view is that Fake News is a symptom of a far more serious problem: filter bubbles.

«You need to also make sure that that voice is not used for foreign interference in elections or disseminating fake news.»

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,» Zuckerberg said in opening remarks before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

Applying election - silence laws to social media where fake news thrives would, in many countries, simply be an extension of a pre-existing legal framework.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

November 2016 — Zuckerberg describes the idea that fake news on Facebook's platform could have influenced the outcome of the US election as «a pretty crazy idea» — a comment he later says he regrets making, saying it was «too flippant» and a mistake

Zuckerberg, lambasted over whether «fake news» on social media swayed the election, managed to pen a 6,000 - word salvo on society without singling out Trump.

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

When Facebook was first confronted with the possibility that fake news and propaganda on its platform may have swayed the election for Donald Trump, just days after the candidate's surprise victory, CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea, calling it «crazy.»

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.»