Sentences with phrase «hoaxes spread»

YouTube began prioritizing trusted news sources in search results tied to breaking news, after other hoaxes spread around tragedies like the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.)

Aspartame received its bad reputation after several e-mail hoaxes spread throughout the internet about its alleged disease causing properties like cancer and multiple sclerosis.

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.»

A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.

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Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

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 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.

Clickbait sites manufacture hoaxes to make money from ads, while so - called hyperpartisan sites publish and spread rumors and conspiracy theories to influence public opinion.

If a mass HOAX were to instantly spread through social media channels regarding a false NFL stadium evacuation, his company would be a major contributor in the decentralized relaying of dangerous information — likely inducing widespread panic.

The Bali provincial administration has accused countries that have destinations similar to Bali of spreading hoaxes about the impact of the volcanic activity at Mount Agung in trying benefit from recent disruption.

Inhofe appeared at the Third International Climate Conference on Copenhagen to spread the message that «Global warming is a hoax, and there's no way the Senate is going to pass a cap - and - trade bill.»

Could this be a sign that NOAA's scientists were under the thumb of an authoritarian Obama administration bent on spreading the climate change hoax?

As a clearly intended consequence of the organized campaigns of disinformation, this «climate science is a hoax» propaganda has spread widely in the political arena.

We then spread the word, warning others of the hoax.

It can be hard to tell which announcements are real and which are hoaxes that spread like wildfire across social media.

For years, YouTube has been plagued with videos that spread hoaxes, hateful speech, and all manner of misinformation.

On 30 March 2018, the hoax - spreading, self - described conservative blog FellowshipoftheMinds.com posted a story reporting that organizers of the «March for Our Lives» rally in Washington, D.C., had applied for march permits months before the 14 February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Hoaxes and disinformation are spreading in the aftermath of a shooting at YouTube's offices in San Bruno, California.

Similar hoaxes were spread online following other mass shootings, including the 2012 assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.