Sentences with phrase «false news stories»

The study also found that automated «bots» were not a major factor in the spread of false news stories.

They are also investigating what impact paid social media ads like these and other false news stories had on influencing the public.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal comes after last year's disclosures that a Russian company bought ads and placed false news stories on Facebook in an effort to sow dissension among U.S. voters.

Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said it was «deplorable» that as the time for the Roman Catholic cardinals to elect a new pope approaches, a rash of «often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories» has appeared.

Misinformation has been an issue for Google and its YouTube video platform: «Often, low - quality websites would rank highly in Google News despite spreading false news stories, and YouTube channels that promote conspiracies often dominate during events like the Las Vegas shooting last year,» Sloane writes.

The do no research, report false news stories and they work for Rupert Murdoch (the paragon of ethics)-- which by itself, should be enough for anyone to hit another channel number on the remote.

known false news stories that appeared in the three months before the election, those favoring Trump were shared a total of 30 million times on Facebook, while those favoring Clinton were shared eight million times;

Tweet replies to false news stories also contained more words indicating surprise.

Many of the deliberately misleading or outright false news stories on Facebook are shared among regular users, and they often come from residents of the United States.

He's also announced new policies like more clearly labeled political ads, and renewed efforts to weed out false news stories before they spread on Facebook.

The proliferation of false news stories and hoaxes, many of which come from fraudulent domains that pretend to be real news publishers, has been a problem for Facebook for some time.

Proof of the Vatican's irritation came with a blistering statement Saturday complaining of «unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories,» even suggesting the media is trying to influence the papal election.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it had begun «fact - checking» photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.

The study provides a variety of ways of quantifying this phenomenon: For instance, false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are.

An analysis of how true and false news stories spread on Twitter reveals that false news spreads substantially faster, and to far more people.

To investigate further, Leonie Rösner and Nicole Krämer at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany created a fake website for football fans, and planted a false news story stating that people would no longer be allowed to stand at matches.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had begun «fact - checking» photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it had begun «fact - checking» photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.

It includes mechanisms to fight fake accounts, false news stories, shady and misleading ads, and foreign agents interfering with elections.

Lawmakers and media advocacy groups have called on YouTube to help stop the spread of hoaxes and false news stories.

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had begun «fact - checking» photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.

Facebook failed to mention any specifics — for instance, how many links to false news stories a Page must share before it gets blocked from buying ads, and for that matter, how long it'll take for them to get unblocked suppose they stop sharing such items.