Further, they are highly visible as allies of the activists and residents, and that visibility makes them an easy target; hence, they won't fake data or let laypeople do so.
Expect the comments below to be filled with changing goalposts, poisoning of the well (something along the lines of «scientists shouldn't be investigating scientists», even though what they were investigating was Dr. Mann's scientific conduct), distractions, diversions, and just general noise — anything to bury the cold fact that the scientists involved with modeling global warming did not cheat, did
not fake any data, and the bigger issue that climate change is real.
Not exact matches
(Yes, there are some questions about
fake likes, but since I'm interested in comparative
data, we don't have to worry about those right now.)
According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was
fake — planted specifically to render a
data dump confusing, if
not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the
fake.
At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the
data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why
data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through
fake and poorly reported news.
«Most reputable
data firms are using proven predictive modeling techniques on an individual level, whereas Cambridge was guilty of using fancy
fake science terms on unwitting politicians who do
not understand how
data analytics work.
Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does
not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does
not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers
data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about
fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing
data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate
fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance,
not just engagement.
Just as with other recent large - scale
data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of
fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.
The company isn't facing one scandal — it's facing two: one about Russian disinformation and
fake news, and one about user privacy and
data security.
[Note: the interviews for this poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's
data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while
not directly a «
fake news» issue, is related to the topic.]
This fluctuation could be exploited by someone who knew the
fake scare was coming, but we do
not have access to the
data that would allow us to know whether this happened.
If it weren't for
data privacy,
fake news and hate speech taking up so much air time, this year's Facebook conference would've probably centered around a far less controversial topic: augmented reality.
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«But it's clear now we didn't do enough — focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for
fake news, foreign interference and hate speech, in addition to application developers and
data privacy.»
«We didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for
fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and
data privacy.»
btw, «I do
nt know for the first 4», and «it's all
fake for # 5», is
not a response that provides
data explaining anything...
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but please don't use your opinion (which is an opinion —
not a fact) to shame or scare people into doing or
not doing something; especially if you do
not have any factual evidence (as opposed to «
fake» evidence — the foundation for the entire anti-vaccinne movement has been debunked as scientifically inaccurate, so there is no
data which backs up the claim that vaccines cause autism) to back up your stance.
He was referring to Clinton's assertions during her talk that
fake news about her was spread on Facebook, and that the Democratic Party, unlike the well - funded Republicans, did
not have a sophisticated
data system.
A news piece from NY Post where, on the basis that one Census employees that performed the
data collection (so, a low level position) admitted adding
fake interviews (
not for political reasons but to reach «productivity» objectives).
Matthew Evans is responsible for placing
fake signals into LIGO
data to test the system - so he knew right away that the gravitational wave signal wasn't a test
Petigura actually introduced
fake planets into the Kepler
data in order to determine which ones his software could detect and which it couldn't.
I know I should be nice and
not mention too much about
faked data.
This kind of news isn't necessarily
fake, but I tell students that in an argument, any argument, if we want to be respected for sophistication, we must find ways to gather evidence through true
data,
not biased opinions.
Those half - a-million exclusive authors should
not stand for
fake data and merchandising lists.
Now, if I go out on a tangent I definitely can imagine situations where it works: The attacker is using a
fake or insecure wifi hotspot to intercept
data and you use this wifi hotspot for one part, but
not the other.
«The most hideously egregious
data fabrication» «In comparison, Mann 08 uses initially questionable
data which has
not been calibrated to temperature (tree rings), chops the end off of nearly every proxy and pastes
fake temperature
data on the end as a replacement (I could have previously imagined) calibrates the
fake data to temperature using methods which amplify recent trends compared to history and then throws away anything which doesn't fit his pre-determined conclusion.
We all learn fairly early that some of the most arrogant scientists can actually be (often are) right; that an unwillingness to share
data does
not mean that it is
faked; that complaints about colleagues are
not usually politically motivated; that dumb ideas are
not always acted upon.
Caveats like we may have got one or two proxies upside down, like we may have
faked some of the
data that did
not fit too well.
With the addition of 4 - 5 years more
data the
fake - skeptics are now proclaiming we don't have enough
data.
Each of the comments were put under different category of «conspiracy theory», such as «didn't email deniers», «Warmists
faked data», and «Emailed warmists before deniers».
REPLY: Ah typical anonymous warmist, when cornered with facts and
data they can't refute, they go down the «
faked» and «obsession» route.
Not real - real -
fake, real -
fake or
fake data, Bob.
He knows that he is safe, because if the
Fake Skeptics say: Warmist don't have even 0,0000000000001 % of the
data ESSENTIAL, for knowing what is the temp; would have exposed that:» their lies about past phony GLOBAL warmings have even less
data».
Therefore there's no point to the exercise anymore — they can
fake all the
data they want, it doesn't matter.
Just because
not everyone agrees with your interpretation of the
data doesn't make them «
fakes».
So, with confidence, Man's conclusion was:» now is 1C warmer planet than 1000y ago» Ian Plimer's Zombies can
not say that: -»
data for 1012AD is almost non-existent — because at that time the earth was flat — 70 % of the GLOBAL surface area didn't exist»... Because the»
Fake Fundamentalist» have being constantly lying that» at that time THE WHOLE PLANET was warmer, Mann and the rest of the Swindlers can rub
Fake's noses... on innocent people's expenses.
Tamino has just now shown that RATPAC balloon thermometer
data of the lower troposphere does
not support a «pause» in warming over the past 18 years as
fake skeptics claim RSS
data do.
They come to genuinely believe weather equals climate, and all the usual climate myths, because they think AGW is a giant liberal conspiracy, so none of the
data can be trusted and you do
nt need to apply logical analysis because its all a conspiracy and
fake data and equations anyway.
The big point is that the
data were
not faked.
There's buttons you can click, but all of the
data is
fake, and it's
not going to be as pretty.
While it didn't appear to be stealing
data or harboring other malicious code, it's still a
fake app being used to make money.
Last month, both Facebook representatives and Nix told the parliamentary inquiry into
fake news that the company did
not have or use private Facebook
data, or any
data from GSR.
Last month, Facebook's UK director of policy, Simon Milner, told British MPs on a select committee inquiry into
fake news, chaired by Conservative MP Damian Collins, that Cambridge Analytica did
not have Facebook
data.
The Obama folks did
not create a
fake Facebook application that would then harvest
data about your Facebook friends.
The Obama folks pulled readily accessible information directly from the social graph, they didn't craft any
fake apps to harvest your
data behind the scenes.
Dropbox may
not be mired by accusations of spreading
fake news or mishandling personal user
data, but it is growing in an environment tainted by a lack of employee diversity.
That the company resorted to
fake graffiti suggests it certainly wasn't above using underhanded tactics, though the misbehavior it is accused of in the U.S. — inappropriately harvesting 50 million Facebook profiles to beef up its political -
data efforts in 2014 — are a great deal more complicated.
«We didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm... That goes for
fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and
data privacy.»
«We didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for
fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and
data privacy.»