Sentences with phrase «fake news sites»

We gave up on historic media sources and journalism ethics, and fake news site rose in prominence.

Now that the dust has settled from the election, many are wondering just what an impact fake news sites will make on the social landscape.

Last month, Facebook barred fake news sites from using its ad - selling services.

But critics still argue that the president's opinions of fake news sites like InfoWars are irrelevant to the real - world consequences of baseless conspiracy theories.

And he strongly criticised pro-Jeremy Corbyn fake news sites like the Canary and Skwawkbox, claiming the abuse aimed at MPs was «appalling».

Over the weekend, fake news site KCTV7 — which posts these types of lies for the sheer joy of watching the world burn --» reported» that...

Facebook has updated the language in its Facebook Audience Network policy, which already says it will not display ads in sites that show misleading or illegal content, to include fake news sites.

During the 2016 election cycle, fake news sites spread like wildfire on Facebook and other social media platforms.

And in a preprint posted to the arXiv server2, they traced interactions between 4chan boards and other online communities, such as Twitter and Reddit, to examine how sites share links from known fake news sites, or from what the team calls «alternative» news sources such as RT (formerly Russia Today).

One way the social media behemoth plans on doing that is by making sure fake news sites can't profit.

The Russian troll farm that bought ads pointing to fake news sites on Facebook also ran a fake Twitter account impersonating the Tennessee Republican Party.

The rise of fake news sites may be the result of increasing distrust in institutional news providers.

Yes, even traditional news outlets are imperfect organizations that may have failed us in the past, but traditional media sources have levels of accountability that fake news sites lack.

In contrast, other research combing national survey data with individual browser histories estimates that about 25 % of American adults (65 million) visited a fake news site in the final weeks of the election.

Players build audiences for their fake news sites by publishing polarising falsehoods, deploying twitter bots, photo - shopping evidence, and inciting conspiracy theories in the wake of public tragedy — all while maintaining a «credibility score» to remain as persuasive as possible.

The report this time came from a fake news site called Newswatch 33... Emily Blackwood is an Editor at YourTango...

There are some pretty basic policy decisions we've made, like O.K., if you're anywhere close to being a fake news site, you can't put Facebook ads on your site, right?

«If you're anywhere close to being a fake news site, you can't put Facebook ads on your site, right?