Sentences with phrase «hoaxes on»

While April 1 is not considered a national holiday, it is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.

But hackers and scam artists could then use that information - and combine it with other data in circulation - to pull hoaxes on people, plant malware on their computers or commit other mischief.

It was just last month, Facebook introduced a new program to fight fake news and hoaxes by working with ABC News, Snopes.com, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and other third - party organizations that can help identify hoaxes on Facebook.

Viral hoaxes on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election reveal the limits of campaign finance laws and regulations.

Ahead of the November release of her first English - language album in six years, Dion was the subject of not one, but two death hoaxes on Facebook, and was in the process of selling her $ 72.5 - million Florida mansion and $ 30 - million Montreal manor to build a new residence in Las Vegas where she's reportedly signed a contract to perform at Caesars through 2019.

We know, we study this, we know that it's a very small volume of anything,» he said, adding, «There have been hoaxes on the internet, there were hoaxes before.»

MICHAEL JORDAN was a victim of a hoax on Dec. 30 when someone purporting to be his brother called the Target Center at halftime of the Bulls» game against the Timberwolves.

We generally welcome efforts to dispel e-mail hoaxes about microwaving with plastics, but Julie Deardorff's recent column («Internet hoax on plastic does leak some truth,» Q, June 11) only adds to the confusion.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

I used to use the dihydrogen monoxide hoax on the first day of a class I taught about the public perception of science.

On Thursday, Manti Te'o will share his personal and painful story about the love hoax on Katie Couric's talk show, Katie and all eyes will be watching.

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As the trailers were eager to give away, he's just been playing an elaborate hoax on best friend Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), but still: point taken.

In fact, the difference would be that Perry is even more vocally opposed to climate science than Bush was — at least Bush didn't have the gall to make ridiculous statements about climate scientists perpetrating a hoax on the American people.

By refusing to consider the adverse comments of prior judges — thus giving bogus experts a free pass — the promise in the 2010 Ontario Rules of Justice (as they apply to experts) has become a misleading hoax on the public.

The whole notion of gate - keeping of expert testimony has been reduced to a hoax on the public.

Some Stoneman Douglas High School students eventually debunked the Classmates.com hoax on their personal pages.

By Robert Wilson Half a century ago, marketing consultant James Vicary pulled a hoax on the American people as a way to promote his advertising agency.

Not exact matches

«On the West Coast, we know that climate change is not a hoax,» he said.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

It was behind four of the 10 most shared hoax stories on Facebook in the three months before November 8, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed.

President Trump offered his own opinion on the ongoing investigation on Twitter, saying that «The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook.

Britain on Wednesday scrambled RAF Typhoon fighter jets to escort a Ryanair flight from Lithuania after a hoax security alert.

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.

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.

Network Associates Inc., McAfee's parent company, provides free virus alerts, updates, update on hoaxes, and other information.

«This is an early test, and I'm going to keep a close eye on it to make sure we're fighting actual spam and hoaxes, and not limiting people's freedom of expression.»

Our goal is to reduce these hoaxes just like we fight other scams on our platform, but I want us to be especially careful about never being arbiters of truth ourselves — which is why we're working with third - party fact - checkers.

And in some ways, allowing those hoaxes and conspiracy theories on the platform keeps a subset of users happy.

Web site includes a rich collection of analyses, articles, updates on hoaxes, and alerts, including monthly «Top 10» virus list.

The intended effect is to discourage websites that rely on advertising revenue from publishing misleading and hoax information.

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.»

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to bring back coal - mining jobs and dismantle Obama's environmental policy, declaring climate change a «hoax.»

After Facebook disclosed that there was Russian ad activity on it's platform, Trump tweeted that the «hoax continues.»

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.»

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and said it was invented by the Chinese to undermine U.S. manufacturing, has said he wants to cancel the 2015 Paris Agreement among almost 200 nations that entered into force on Nov. 4.

Even at the best of times, the online hacking subculture is notoriously untrustworthy — full of hoaxes, disinformation, and catfishing (impersonating people to defraud others on the internet).

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.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

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.

«There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap),» the president wrote on his personal account.

While initial efforts to define and tackle this problem were focused on hoaxes, the root of the problem is that both good and bad content are incentivized by the same sets of tools and algorithmic changes.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

Russia and Syria dismiss as a hoax the claims that the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al - Assad used chemical weapons in the rebel - held enclave of Douma on April 7.

On the campaign stump, Trump repeatedly described global warming as «a hoax.»

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

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.

This WH statement on new climate report is a far cry from Trump's claim that climate change is a «hoax» pic.twitter.com / EdnqaTEnaM