Sentences with phrase «impact of fake news»

Stock up on the popcorn — the currently suspended CEO of the firm at the center of a data handling and political ad - targeting storm currently embroiling Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, has been recalled by a UK parliamentary committee that's running a probe into the impact of fake news because it's unhappy with the quality of his prior answers.

He also said that it was a mistake to have been too dismissive of the impact of fake news, and clarified that the number of accounts affected the privacy fiasco may be closer to 87 million, instead of 50 million which was first quoted by the media.

Zuckerberg said Wednesday it was a mistake to dismiss the impact of fake news as «crazy,» which he infamously did two days after the election.

The committee is examining the difference between biased but legitimate commentary and propaganda and untruths, and the impact of fake news on public understanding of the world.

«There have been many discussions on the impact of fake news and the digital revolution on the media industry,» Ms. Joly said in a recent interview from Switzerland, where she attended the World Economic Forum.

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The social media company also disclosed that it had earned $ 1.9 million in advertising revenue from RT since 2011 and said it would donate that money to research fake news and the civil impact of Twitter.

Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has said she is looking for ways to foster cultural diversity, while protecting the political process from the type of fake news that had a large impact on the recent U.S. election.

One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.

But while the majority of UK journalists agree fake news is making people more sceptical about the content they read, a startling 93 % are unsure what it means for their publication — or think its impact has been «neutral».

As Lucinda Shen of Fortune recently pointed out, the new clampdown will have no impact on the platform's fake news problem (which is apparently bigger in the realm of cryptocurrency).

3) to discredit the news organizations as a way to minimize the impact of stories unfavorable to the administration: nobody is going to take fake news seriously.

He discussed how to discern real news from fake, the challenges for journalists digging for the truth amid the chaos of the Trump administration and the impact of social media platforms as «sources» of news.

«Now it's «fake news» — there's nothing «fake» about the impact of the blackouts and high prices,» he said.

It is apparent that the government is sufficiently concerned with this phenomenon to set up a Select Committee (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) to explore the concept of «fake news» and the potential impact it is having on the public understanding of the world,» expands Luke.

I have seen very few frivolous lawsuits but tons of frivolous defenses to legitimate cases, yet the public perception that civil lawsuits for money are often frivolous and will financially impact the defendant being sued or otherwise jack up insurance rates are false beliefs that many of our jurors have been led to believe because of propaganda and fake news

The company is dealing with an onslaught of criticism around polarization, election interference, fake news, censorship, sucking money out of journalism, and negative impacts on well - being from overuse of its social network.

The combination of a «whistleblower» with pink hair, a huge botched job by FB, quite clever coordination with the New York Times which has a very strong incentive to blame Facebook for Trump (rather than their own coverage of Hillary's emails and so on, which dwarfed all «fake news» social media in impact — cf. physicist Duncan Watts for detail), and the desire of many established players to screw Silicon Valley tech companies gave the story more legs than her previous ones.

On how Facebook will measure its impact on fixing privacy: Zuckerberg wants to be able to measure «the prevalence of different categories of bad content like fake news, hate speech, bullying, terrorism... That's going to end up being the way we should be held accountable and measured by the public... My hope is that over time the playbook and scorecard we put out will also be followed by other internet platforms so that way there can be a standard measure across the industry.»

That's an issue, because Facebook has a lot of impact in countries in Indonesia and others, they've affected things by fake news.

As Lucinda Shen of Fortune recently pointed out, the new clampdown will have no impact on the platform's fake news problem (which is apparently bigger in the realm of cryptocurrency).

In a wide - ranging interview on Vox's The Ezra Klein Show podcast, Zuckerberg discussed election interference, the handling of user data and privacy, the proliferation of fake news, and what to do when your company — with more than 2 billion users — reaches a size and scale where the consequences for failure have a massive impact.

UK parliamentarians are also currently investigating the impact of Russian - backed Brexit meddling in the UK's 2016 EU referendum, as part of a wider enquiry into fake news.

The fears regarding Facebook's impact on democracy are likely due in part to the spread of fake news stories that appeared on Facebook during the U.S. 2016 presidential elections.