Sentences with phrase «for spreading fake news»

Facebook also shared plans to go after Pages and domains that are responsible for spreading fake news.

Facebook has been under fire since the 2016 general election for spreading fake news that was designed to influence voter behavior, particularly in certain key states.

4 April 2018 A site known for spreading fake news about the deaths of prominent musicians is at it again.

This finding indicates that humans, rather than bots, are primarily to blame for spreading fake news on the platform.

He brands anyone who criticises him a fake or a fraud responsible for spreading fake news.

Facebook also shared plans to go after Pages and domains that are responsible for spreading fake news.

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The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

When accusations were flying at Facebook for allegedly helping spread fake news about the 2016 US election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by saying the idea that Facebook had any serious impact on the election was a «crazy» one.

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

Facebook, for example, recently announced a plan to attack the fake news that spreads like wildfire in its users» feeds.

The cross-party group spent more than an hour attacking YouTube and Google for its role in spreading fake news, contributing to the decline of journalism, and on its spending on removing abusive or misleading content.

He says Facebook will look for new ways to stop the spread of fake news, but he also argues that «we must proceed very carefully» and that Facebook must be «extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.»

Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance, not just engagement.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

The political instability that reigns in the country has made it easier for fake news to spread within fanatic circles.

The public feels that social media platforms are partly to blame for the spread of fake news and are not doing enough to stop it.

Most Americans (60 %) say that social media sites are partly responsible for the spread of fake news but that other media sources are more responsible.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

This compares to 29 % who say that social media sites are mostly responsible for the spread of fake news.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

A solution the pope proposes for combating fake news on an individual basis: Listen to diverse sources instead of engaging with homogenous news environments: «Praiseworthy efforts are being made to create educational programs aimed at helping people to interpret and assess information provided by the media, and teaching them to take an active part in unmasking falsehoods, rather than unwittingly contributing to the spread of disinformation.»

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

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.

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A group of Facebook architects harshly criticized the company for its involvement in the spread of fake news and voiced their concern that the company has «created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»

In an era where the alt - right has risen up once more in spite of history and Fake News is considered fact by too many, Holocaust deniers have new platforms to spread mistruths, this Bill seems a dangerous precedent for a country to set.

In an era where the alt - right has risen up once more in spite of his - tory and Fake News is considered fact by too many, Holocaust de - niers have new platforms to spread mistruths, this Bill seems a dan - gerous precedent for a country to set.

He says Facebook will look for new ways to stop the spread of fake news, but he also argues that «we must proceed very carefully» and that Facebook must be «extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.»

And there's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation - states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news, but we can get in front of this.

Facebook, along with Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL), has come under fire since the 2016 presidential election for its role in spreading fake news, enabling polarizing filter bubbles, and not catching Russian propaganda campaigns.

The Cambridge Analytica news is just the latest crisis for the social networking giant, which has been grappling with its role in the spreading of fake news and ads by Russian trolls, who last month were indicted for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Web giant Google has come under fire for allowing fake news and misinformation to spread on its services before, and now it seems that its subsidiary, video giant YouTube, is the newest arm of the company to have the same problem.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

There's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation - states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news, but we can get in front of this.

Several tech companies, including Twitter and Google, have faced criticism for failing to curb the spread of «fake news» on its platforms, and allowing Russian - backed trolls to buy ads to spread misinformation on their platforms.

Some U.S. lawmakers, increasingly alarmed over evidence that hackers used the internet to spread fake news and otherwise influence last year's election, have been pushing for more information about social networks.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections.

An inalienable right for publishers to get paid whenever anybody links to their content, on social media or elsewhere, creates a perverse incentive structure: From the perspective of the social network, spreading fake news in the form of sponsored posts makes them money, whereas their users sharing legitimate news articles costs them money.

Fake news and propaganda would remain free to spread as those publishers care only about achieving the maximum possible reach - they would never start charging for snippets.

Responding to a question, he said there is a lot of hard work that the Facebook needs to do to make it harder for countries like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news.

«There's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation - states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news, but we can get in front of this,» he told CNN.

Social media has recently come under fire for its role in the spread of fake news, and various networks have tried to address the problem in different ways.

In a Facebook post published after the election, former Facebook product designer Bobby Goodlatte blamed the social network for boosting the visibility of «highly partisan, fact - light media,» and for not taking bigger steps to combat the spread of fake news in the lead - up to the election.

In the past, Stamos has attempted to shift the blame for the spread of fake news on Facebook to the algorithm used by the company.

Prior to the Cambridge Analytica story breaking, Facebook has been criticized for allowing the spread of fake news on its platform.

Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance, not just engagement.