After weeks of denying that the spread of viral «fake news» stories was a problem that it needed to be concerned about, Facebook (fb) has finally announced some concrete measures designed to blunt
the force of hoaxes and misinformation, including a partnership with external fact - checking organizations who call out fakes.
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One possible answer is that it seems that President Jonathan and his supporters have picked up the idea that this entire thing is a
hoax, created by rival political
forces in the north
of the country, which was designed to embarrass him — next year is an election year in Nigeria, after all.
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Detective chief inspector Steward Miller said: «We've been made aware
of a
hoax email sent to schools in the
force area this morning 13 April 2018.
In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton,
forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial
of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a
hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).
He then claimed, for the first time, that the paper was a
hoax, because he was
forced to remove 40 pages
of criticism
of the seminal Mann, Bradley Hughes ’99 hockey stick graph before it could be published.
Now
of course «skeptics» are going to claim that this is an effort at mass indoctrination and an attempt to
force their dogma / ideology /
hoax / communist world government onto society.
Meanwhile, the Paris Agreement went into
force on November 4th, far sooner than anyone ever expected, signaling a new era
of international climate action — but, just a few days later, the United States, the second - largest emitter in the world, elected a new president who has called global warming a
hoax and pledged to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement as soon as possible.