known false news stories that appeared in the three months before the election, those favoring Trump were shared a total of 30 million times on Facebook, while those favoring Clinton were shared eight million times;
Not exact matches
We now
know that Russian - sponsored trolls used phony accounts and networks of automated «bots» to stoke controversies and seed the
news ecosystem with
false narratives during the 2016 presidential election.
He also told CBS
News «we're taking a deep breath
knowing that it was a
false alarm,» but added on Twitter that the mistake was «totally inexcusable,» and the whole state had been terrified.
No matter how often radical periodicals denounced fake
news published by their competitors, they found it difficult to suppress false information spread by powerful newswire companies like Hearst's International News Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated Pr
news published by their competitors, they found it difficult to suppress
false information spread by powerful newswire companies like Hearst's International
News Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated Pr
News Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated Press.
«They're going to have to prove that ABC falsely reported information, and they're going to have to prove that ABC
News knew that the stories were
false or they had serious doubts about the truth.»
Over the past few months, we have taken action against fake accounts in France, Germany, and other countries, and we recently stated that we will
no longer allow Pages that repeatedly share
false news to advertise on Facebook.
«Some pump and dumps use
false news reports, typically about a famous high - tech business leader or investor who plans to pour millions of dollars into a small, lesser
known virtual currency or coin.
The bad
news is that bitcoin's price has dropped, and if the Chinese rumors are
false, then we're
no closer to finding the true cause of the drop.
Clive Ireson, director of strategy at the Association of Christian Teachers agrees with the findings, speaking on Premier's
News Hour, he said: «Children
know if they've done something good or not in their work and if people say «oh that's very good», and it isn't, then it's just
false.
He said, «It is
false news (that Buhari is
no longer going to London).
Your brain is easily manipulated by fake
news, because even facts you
know are
false can stick in memory as true.
That's true for everything from the secret algorithms that recommend «people you might
know» to data on its attempts to clamp down on the spread of
false news.
They have since put in place new procedures to help stop
false news and hoaxes but it will be a while before we
know if this policy is working.
Even high profile journalists and
news stations have been
known to post or share stories that turned out to be
false in the end.