Sentences with phrase «false news stories on»
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.
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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.
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The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false «rumor cascades,» on Twitter between September 2006 and December 2016.
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 Fenews: 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 FeNews Feeds.
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 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.
I am saying that story on the news ticker of the television station, which was credited to Sheriff was false.
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;
An analysis of how true and false news stories spread on Twitter reveals that false news spreads substantially faster, and to far more people.
«On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories, study finds: Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.»
Stories on animals that didn't need human help to become tame; false news spreads deeper, wider, and faster than true news — with or without bots; and listening for gender and sexual orientation in human speech
Rumors often spread after some random person on Twitter claims to have inside information and the story gets picked up by news sites, but this false rumor was actually started directly by gaming entertainment website Dorkly.
From false stories causing havoc, all the way to a doctored photo twisting the truth; no matter where untruthful stories sit on the spectrum of lies, fake news in the past has ruined people's lives.
On yesterday's Newsnight (from 7 minutes 20 seconds in), Britain's foremost legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg revealed that he resigned as the Telegraph's legal editor in 2007 after the news desk sexed up a human rights story with false information.
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.
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.
They are also investigating what impact paid social media ads like these and other false news stories had on influencing the public.
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.
However, on Tuesday, Facebook announced a new site feature that aims to counteract the network's proclivity for widely shared, but demonstrably false, news stories.
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The false information is spread through social media posts, comments in news stories and videos posted on traditional journalistic outlets.