Sentences with phrase «fake stories in»

Knowing that editors in U.S. newsrooms obsessively monitor Twitter trends, Russian trolls promote fake stories in the hope legitimate journalists pick them up.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

«Oh, those are not copies; that's not plagiarism — the devil wrote the fake stories in advance».

Large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media.

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.

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The history is important, as a problematic front - page story in The New York Times, How GOP Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science, illustrates.

Rather than just being «fake news,» many of the most - shared stories in this right - wing ecosystem «can more accurately be understood as disinformation,» the study says.

However, before entrepreneurs in the tech space try to figure out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another of the many PR fakes Apple has pulled over the years.

After initially dismissing the issue of fake news and its role in distributing it, Facebook recently started working with third - party fact - checking groups and is now flagging stories that have been called into question or whose accuracy has been disputed.

Facebook is working with fact - checking companies to highlight questionable stories as «disputed» and letting users mark posts as «fake news,» while Twitter has changed its default profile image from an egg to a human head silhouette, partly to reduce trolling, it said Friday in a blog post.

It reiterated in a follow - up tweet that its servers being hacked is a «fake new (sic) story.»

«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.»

In particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favoIn particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favoin his favor.

On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News Feeds.

These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies created systems where fake news stories spread more easily than factual reports.

For the record, the stories we are referencing in this campaign are the unsubstantiated ones (i.e. fake / false) like «Pope Endorses Trump» which move quickly across social media and result in an ill - informed public,» reads the memo.

In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president claimed «fake» NBC «made up» the story.

Soon after The Hill published a story about the deal earlier in October, Trump latched onto it, tweeting that the «Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

The stories they eventually ran were anti-labor, including one fake claiming that miners had ambushed company guards, which justified sending in the troops to suppress them.

Facebook faced criticism in the last couple of months that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of fake news stories on its platform during the U.S. presidential campaign.

If Facebook and Google crack down on «fake news» sites, the Microsoft researcher argues, those who have an interest in generating that kind of content will find ways around the restrictions, as many already have by using visual «memes» instead of links to news stories.

«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.

At the same time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has signaled reluctance to have Facebook become more active in weeding out fake news stories.

First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any of this; while the company denies this report in Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2

Yet the US involvement was incongruous with president Trump's own stances, who questioned former president Barack Obama's birthplace for years without evidence, threw doubt on the accuracy of stories in US media outlets, and even doled out «fake news awards» in January to reputable news companies including the New York Times and Washington Post.

Nearly 9 - in - 10 Americans (87 %) believe that outside groups are trying to plant fake news stories on social media sites like Facebook and YouTube.

The number who say it is done accidentally has increased from 17 % a year ago as more people feel that the traditional media engages in reporting fake news stories.

The stories allege, for instance, that SCL tried to place a story in an Indonesian paper based on a purported government document that was apparently fake, and how it repeatedly tried to operate through front and shell groups while obscuring where its funds were coming from.

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

Q But the President — I mean, when the story first happened came out that Ty Cobb would be leaving and Emmet Flood would be coming in, the President said, «fake news,» said it was not true.

Fox News is carefully choosing the stories to cover, and the kinds of words it uses to cover those stories, to shape an alternate reality in which Trump's alleged affair with a porn star is yet another piece of fake news.

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.

Sleeping Money Machine is one of those binary systems that use fake testimonies and stories in order to promote their product.

In 2016, Techonomy is where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg famously said fake news stories on Facebook influencing the...

Jesus most likely never existed, the story about him was a fake, if he did exist he was a glorified David Koresh, but considering it is impossible to rise after being dead, odds are they just made up the story, the Bible has so many lies in it, would not surprise me if it was just another story

Sorry mark, but you have been told numerous times that actual biblical scholars agree that the prostîtute story in john is a fake.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

In a promotional article published on VNN, Duke takes «fake but accurate» to new depths, asserting that it does not matter that the original Protocols were a fabrication because the story they told about the Jews is true; his book proves how.

It's unclear why a strapping young Heisman candidate would have to invent a fake girlfriend, if he did indeed conspire in the fake story.

@ NightOps — Your story of the prostîtute in John is a fake.

Like most fake news stories, it wasn't based on any real events of facts, but is a work of complete fiction meant to fool readers in order to generate clicks and social media shares.

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The internet is in a tizzy over the idea that Kevin Durant uses fake accounts to defend himself on Twitter, but that story is nothing compared to his private Instagram account that was unearthed in the wake of the Twitter conspiracy.

Mario Balotelli faked an injury in training with Liverpool to go and buy an iPhone 6, according to an incredibly story from the Liverpool Echo.

Buying morgan would complete our midfield if anything we might have to get rid of one or two like flamini and arteta also these stories about kos the boss going madrid are fake as I just think ramos wants I pay rise and why leave the biggest club in the world

The motorsport world naturally got involved in things, so we've gathered together some of the best (or worst) fake news stories, jokes and pranks from the day.

Through Coutinho's agent they convinced the player to sit out with a faked injury, fed stories about Jügren Klopp having mistreated him, and capped it off by getting him to handg in a transfer request at the most damaging time possible — immediately ahead of the Liverpool's Champions League playoff.

Back in 2014 there was a story about a Dutch woman who faked a 5 - week trip to Southeast Asia.

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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.