The spread
of false stories was more pronounced for political news than for news in the other categories.
If we are willing to post
false stories on social media and spread lies about important issues, why should we be believed about matters of faith?
It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does
for false stories to reach the same number of people.
It is not uncommon for governments in trouble to engage PR firms using legitimate media outlets to
plant false stories that make them look better than they are.
Fanwo in a statement said Melaye
told false stories of unpaid salaries in his state, thrilled the crowd with his Aje Kun Iya Ni'Oje signature while preaching his false message of death being reward for both lying and telling the truth.
In addition to the proliferation of «fake news» websites that
publish false stories for propaganda purposes, another challenge for traditional media is hostility from Trump who has on occasion described their reporting as «fake news.»
The Nigerian Army has described
as false a story which alleged that Boko Haram attacked Pulka and abducted 22 women.
The bill, according to its content was to punish anyone from caught writing, posting or
spreading false stories about personalities
Thousands of
false stories made headlines over the last 40 years almost all promoted by Suzuki.
In a big interview with the Washington Post about gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg portrayed his opponents as extremists who rile their base
with false stories about government plans to seize people's guns.
«Being the boss» daughter has both unique challenges and opportunities as well, and I think sometimes you can believe
false stories when the wrong people or negative people get in your ear,» McMahon told CNBC.
Discussions of
false stories tended to start from fewer original tweets, but some of those retweet chains then reached tens of thousands of users, while true news stories never spread to more than about 1,600 people.
The new policy goes one step further by banning Pages that repeatedly engage in sharing
false stories from advertising on Facebook.
The Daily guide and other pro Npp online websites published many
false stories which were hammered consistently.
«I think also being the boss» daughter has both unique challenges and opportunities as well, and I think sometimes you can
believe false stories when the wrong people or negative people get in your ear.»
An EPA staffer reportedly
leaked false stories about a cabinet official in order to «take the heat off» Scott Pruitt
The string of questions was collected from both true and
false stories circulating online in Kenya and Nigeria by the digital research company Nendo.
After spending the better part of two months
feeding false stories to sympathetic reporters in Spain about how a Coutinho transfer was permanent — later this week!
Apart from being useful in stamping out
blatantly false stories by requiring direct proof, defamation laws can also take aim at stories that use innuendo and sensationalism to suggest defamatory meanings.
``... one day back in 1992 the movement left him disenchanted after recognizing how leading green activists wildly exaggerated the situation in the Amazonian Forest and intentionally
fabricated false stories of a world in environmental peril...» George Monbiot, a writer for the left wing UK Guardian wrote an apology for misleading the world over nuclear energy.
Recode reported that 200 publishers were banned from the AdSense network in less than two months for
promoting false stories that looked legitimate but turned out to be fake.
According to her the
recent false story about her was reports that she won't film in a cemetery again because she is scared.
They also measured reactions to the various stories, finding that fake stories were «more novel than true news,» and that «
whereas false stories inspired fear, disgust, and surprise... true stories inspired anticipation, sadness, joy, and trust.»
«Some
other false stories, like the false «Pizzagate» story, can result in dangerous consequences.
In contrast, John Paul II, who is not afraid to have enemies, reminds us that the good news of the Gospel, known through proclamation, is that we are not fated to be determined by
such false stories of freedom.
The apostle Peter wrote that some made up «artfully
contrived false stories» and fed these to individuals as «truth».
You are being defrauded, robbed of your money, time, etc by a fear -
mongering false story written for that very purpose.
When you spread a
provably false story (or one based on speculation, not facts), you are potentially doing all three.
Our inquiry will look
at false stories on the web and inaccurate reporting in the mainstream media
«Just like most Nigerians, I wake up every morning and hear
different false stories on social media pertaining to how we arrested Evans and what he said.
In an exclusive interview with Kwame Adjetia on Neat FM's «Entertainment Ghana», the «Ripples» actress said some of the journalists misquote and
twist false stories to make them seem true for their own selfish gains.
The MIT scholars examined this «novelty hypothesis» in their research by taking a random subsample of Twitter users who
propagated false stories, and analyzing the content of the reactions to those stories.
Saoirse Ronan is a perfect picture of a teenager desperate to invent herself, starting with her goofy moniker and leading
through false stories of her background.
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.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has confirmed a ruling by the Industrial Accident Board that a Boston corrections officer suffered emotional injuries related to his employment, and therefore was entitled to benefits, when inmates threatened to
disseminate false stories about his harassment of prisoners, and those stories were later published in the Boston Herald.
Over and over again it has
peddled false stories, gleefully and irresponsibly then taken up by politicians.
Yet when
false stories began to appear about the Muslims arrested in Birmingham it was decided, for whatever reason, that intervention to stop the growing sensationalism was not necessary.
However, many partners described unease with this arrangement, expressing confusion around how the dashboard represents the large number of
potentially false stories.