Sentences with phrase «hoax news»

One source told Gizmodo that «high - ranking officials were briefed on a planned News Feed update that would have identified fake or hoax news stories, but disproportionately impacted right - wing news sites by downgrading or removing that content from people's feeds.»

One source said high - ranking officials were briefed on a planned News Feed update that would have identified fake or hoax news stories, but disproportionately impacted right - wing news sites by downgrading or removing that content from people's feeds.

That bias manifested Sunday as the promotion of hoax news stories about Megyn Kelly getting fired from Fox News for supporting Hillary Clinton.

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

After Republican Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race Tuesday, numerous media outlets are raising questions about whether hoax news played a notable role in the candidate's rise and in stoking sharp divisions among users of differing political views.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

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Inc. exclusively revealed last week that the website, the source of many of the most - shared news hoaxes benefiting Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, is operated by Ovidiu Drobota, a 24 - year - old based in Romania.

Ever since «fake news» first started to get traction during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it has been seen by many as primarily a Facebook problem because many hoax and fake - news creators use the giant social network as a distribution system.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Joshua Benton, head of the Nieman Journalism Lab, described in a recent essay how residents of the small Louisiana town he was raised in posted and re-posted hoaxes and false news reports about Hillary Clinton and other topics on Facebook.

Even if Facebook does want to stamp out fake news, it has to rely on human beings to flag those stories as hoaxes.

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.

About.com Antivirus Software Guide antivirus.about.com/index.htm?terms=computer+virus News, glossary, encyclopedia of hoaxes, links to vendors and other resources.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as «fake news,» a «hoax» and a «witch hunt.»

«Spammers make money by masquerading as well - known news organizations, and posting hoaxes that get people to visit to their sites, which are often mostly ads,» Adam Mosseri, Facebook vice president of news feed, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

In a statement in February, however, Zuckerberg acknowledged for the first time that Facebook does play a significant role in how people get their news, saying: «We know there is misinformation and even outright hoax content on Facebook, and we take this very seriously.»

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.

Facebook has been under pressure to more closely police hoaxes, fake news and other controversial content, although the concerns have had little impact on its finances.

The company said it would work with third - party organizations to promote «news literacy» and help users decide which sources are trustworthy and would also continue to work on curbing hoaxes.

This work also reduces the distribution of content that violates our policies, since fake accounts often distribute deceptive material, such as false news, hoaxes, and misinformation.

January 20: Facebook News Feed algorithm altered to «show fewer hoaxes.»

Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax and a friend of Trump, did tell ABC News This Week that Trump considered the Daniels story a «political hoax.»

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.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

Ironically, Facebook's new News Feed algorithm might love the hoax itself — which, after all, encourages users to comment and react to the post.

After reporters pointed it out, YouTube removed the video for violating its policy against harassment, which was updated last year to include «hoax videos that target the victims» of breaking news tragedies.

A news outlet described her article as one of several web hoaxes that year.

Unfortunately, there are more hoaxes and fake news stories on the internet than ever before.

I kept scrolling and reading posts, knowing that the news appeared to be true, but still hoping against hope that it would turn out to be the usual social media hoax.

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

HOAX — Daily News» Rocco Parascandola and Leonard Greene: «A Muslim student who said she was harassed on the subway by drunken, hate - spewing white men shouting «Donald Trump!»

The advisory turned heads for more reasons than just the news value of Ms. Moskowitz saying something about her political plans — on Twitter, many reporters wondered if the press release was perhaps a hoax.

If you get your news from social media, as most Americans do, you are exposed to a daily dose of hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories and misleading news.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

Dolphins are a hoax created by China to defeat the freedom to drill and overfishKevin Russell responds to the news...

By now, anyone with a news feed knows of the the Manti Te'o / Lennay Kekua hoax, or what is known in the vernacular as catfishing.

Despite worldwide reports on Friday (18 August) that the role of Harry Potter had been filled, it seems the news was nothing more than a spurious internet hoax that got out of control.

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While concerns have been raised about the ability of readers with a political agenda to «block» legitimate news by flagging it as hoax - worthy content, other sources have said it's about time users had steps to take to help prevent comedic attempts from being misconstrued as factual content.

Watch it once to learn more about the three most feared and respected motorcycle clubs and a second time to read the scrolling news ticker — I knew it was only a matter of time before scientists proved global warming is a liberal hoax!

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Here's the latest Nintendo news: — RUMOR: Classic Pokemon voices coming back?????? (evidence is mounting that it's a hoax....)

«Climategate» is the real hoax, one perpetuated by complaisant media outlets like Fox News, the National Post and the Wall Street Journal.

The AGW hoax is now sold in news programs (the North Pole does not excist anymore, all the ice is gone!

The March 23, 2008, interview with Singer, on March 23, «World News» dubbed «The Skeptic,» began with Harris asking «Why, despite all the evidence, does this scientist still argue that global warming is a hoax?»

The fact that Trump has called global warming a «hoax» was mentioned in nearly a quarter of all segments about climate change on the nightly news and Sunday morning programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2017 — and in more than a third of those instances, the networks didn't push back by affirming that human - driven climate change is a reality.

So the next time a talking head on Fox News tells you that climate change is just a big hoax, remember this study and their motivations.

I would argue that socialism is the greatest hoax / scam in world history... but the latest sales pitch for big government socialism is the need to save the world from «carbon pollution» — and now the slow economic growth inherent in socialism can be spun as good news — slow growth equals less «carbon pollution.»

The CEO of Murray Energy has described climate change as a «hoax» while attacking the EPA on Fox News.