Sentences with phrase «made hoax»

If a skeptic made the hoax, it was a stupid strategy.

Singh has been working with law enforcement on ways to identify people who have made hoax or threatening phone calls.

The big bang theory is a man made hoax after all.

Infidelity does come for a price usually, but the scammers tend to exaggerate or to make a hoax out of everything, leaving you without a partner.

Still, the good qualities easily outnumber the bad ones, making The Hoax a fascinating and watchable caper.

An individual can be charged with making a hoax bomb threat following remarks to the cabin crew on - board an aircraft or inside an airport.

Not exact matches

Trump has said that climate change is a hoax, «created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.»

«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.»

«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.

A humanoid robot in Russia made a break for it, but people are wondering if it's all a hoax and not just human error.

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.

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.

Trump has made no secret his disdain for the «Russia hoax,» and he has reportedly questioned Rosenstein's loyalty to him.

«Mr. Trump's false, defamatory statements about Ms. Zervos — that, among other things, she made up her descriptions of Mr. Trump's misconduct as a hoax, and that she is creating a «phony» story just so that she can be famous — have been deeply detrimental to Ms. Zervos's reputation, honor and dignity,» the suit states.

Deforestation, «rape and run» aqua - culture, robbery of bio-diversity, ecological devastation, and other contaminations make life unlivable and development a huge hoax.

People need to «realize» Christianity is a hoax to make money off them before you can start spewing J.K. Rowling's nonsense as fact... but if you promise eternal life AFTER death and charge people for it, you are guaranteed no one can you prove you wrong.

Religious insti.tutions make grandiose and false claimes about historical events or «miracles» that aren't miracles at all, science has been able to wrap each one up as false, hoax or true but because of natural laws that have no need of a diety.

But for either party to make up such a leaflet and attribute it to pro-Russian forces makes no sense at all, so I can not say if it is real or a hoax.

This actually is one of the reasons I ignore people who feed me the hoax line or that Jesus was made up by some group of people in 175 AD.

When science makes a claim about a particular fossil being a hoax, or that perpetual motion machinery isn't a worthwhile endeavor, they don't shut down the entire discipline..

He has been out of a coma for some time and he's making steady progress despite an internet hoax suggesting last week that he had died.

The group also demanded an apology from former president Goodluck Jonathan and the Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose for leading a propaganda to make Nigerians think that the Chibok girls saga was a hoax.

She said, «So widespread and effective was the propaganda that many Nigerians were misled into believing that the whole kidnap story was hoax or a plot by the opposition to make trouble for the ruling party.

A good example was a hoax that the Eritrean government has passed a law making it compulsory for Eritrean men to marry two wives or go to jail.

The source said Cuomo's frequent «embarrassing and over-the-top» praise of the Rev. Al Sharpton — who in the past insulted Cuomo's father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, during the Tawana Brawley racial hoax — «makes sense in the context of the governor wanting to lock up black support in his run for president.»

He further made references to some alleged hoax reports that suggested that some high profile National Democratic Congress (NDC) supports were being targeted by the NPP.

The swine flu pandemic was a hoax: scientists, governments and the World Health Organization cooked it up in a vast conspiracy so that vaccine companies could make money.

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.

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.

Celebrity businessman Donald Trump has said that global warming is a hoax derived by Democrats and their allies to make money.

And despite Zuckerberg's initial assertion that it's «extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election,» Facebook is taking more steps to fight the problem — by making it easier to report fake stories, for example, and considering the addition of warning labels to stories that readers have flagged as phony.

U.S. President - elect Donald Trump has sometimes called man - made climate change a hoax and threatened to «cancel» the Paris agreement.

If, as Perry has claimed, climate change is a baseless hoax, it makes no sense that he should advocate for a technology explicitly designed to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants for the sole purpose of averting the warming effect of those emissions.

That might have dulled the partisanship around global warming, he suggests, and made it easier for some conservatives to shift their views «because they're not hearing a constant barrage of «This is a liberal hoax.

But how can they, especially considering recent online relationship hoaxes that have been brought to the public's attention, safely navigate the online dating scene and give themselves a good chance at making a true connection?»

So once again it's all an elaborate hoax to make it appear as if real women are initiating contact with you.

Famous hoaxes in recent history 3/3/2016, 8:00 a.m. I don't know what is more astonishing, the bizarre things that people will believe, or the made up stories people will come up with.

The original mermaid's unveiling however, made for a very elaborate hoax; in order to have the public's curiosity, Barnum had one of his associates disguise himself as a «Dr. J. Griffin» of the Lyceum of Natural History, and sent the press letters about the doctor, who had in his possession a great discovery, and because Griffin was a «certified naturalist,» everyone believed it to be real.

Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

Gracey and screenwriters Bill Condon and Jenny Bicks don't make much of the connection between current popular culture and Barnum's hoax - heavy sideshows, even when they underline his attempts to go legit by presenting Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson), a Swedish opera singer.

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The hoax was done by a guy named Chris Parkinson who we reached out to and actually made a producer on the film.

Detective chief inspector Steward Miller said: «We've been made aware of a hoax email sent to schools in the force area this morning 13 April 2018.

A further hoax was reported at Cranmere Primary School in Esher at 10:20 am after a suspicious call was made.

When Los Angeles and New York City received similar emailed threats but made opposing decisions — LA choosing to close its system for a day, New York remaining open, calling the threats a hoax — it cast a spotlight on how school leaders make decisions, and whether there's a right way or a wrong way to proceed in times of uncertainty.

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

It has since been regarded as a hoax in some quarters and claims made about a number of schools named in the letter have been deemed groundless.

«Richards» belief that the school shooting was a hoax and never happened motivated her to make the threats,» prosecutors said.

The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God - fearing social outcast whose chess - playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax.

Great literary hoaxes existed long before ebooks were born, but this situation makes self - published authors as a whole look bad, a fact that critics are happy to point out.