But fake
news is fake news wherever it appears, and crying wolf doesn't work in the long run.
Besides, lots of
news is fake news anyway, so we don't want our precious children exposed to ideas that might encourage them to think for themselves.
Not exact matches
The best response, Denton said, isn't to create more
fake news on the left — it
's to engage people in conversation.
In the case of «
fake news» and its promotion, enforcement
is largely up to Facebook.
While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that
were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising,
fake news, and other posts.
The FBI
is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as
fake news and blamed on Democrats.
Google, like Facebook (fb), has
been criticized for failing to address the rise of
fake news on its service, and has
been debuting several fact - checking features over the past months intended to amend the issues.
The fact that we
're consuming
fake news in our Facebook feeds, Twitter streams and via Google's
news app alongside real journalism suggests that our realities
are poorly edited versions of themselves.
Facebook, he says,
was way too slow to accept its share of responsibility for propagating
fake news; Amazon doesn't seem to consider that it
's helping destroy jobs in the retail sector; Airbnb
is oblivious to the fact that it could do the same to hotel staffing jobs.
However, the Financial Times reported that the Justice Department's primary demand
is for the sale of CNN, a leading cable
news network that has frequently drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who refers to the network and its journalists as «
fake news» on a regular basis.
Current controversies over «
fake news,» Russian interference in the election, and bias in online
news all underscore the fact that Google and Facebook have replaced traditional media in providing many people the information they need to
be effective citizens.
Kara Swisher, Recode executive editor, weighs in on whether it
is social media
's responsibility to resolve conflicts over
fake news or whether it
's the U.S. government
's responsibility.
Although Facebook (fb) has downplayed the prevalence of
fake news on its service, it
's been steadily creating initiatives and debuting new technology to curtail bogus
news stories.
Rather than just
being «
fake news,» many of the most - shared stories in this right - wing ecosystem «can more accurately
be understood as disinformation,» the study says.
My doom - and - gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the
fake news epidemic, and now fears an «information apocalypse» as the trolls turbo - charge their efforts with
AI.
In a sense, what Silver
is pointing out
is similar to what we see in the rise of so - called «
fake news» that circulates through Facebook and other social platforms — namely, a massive case of confirmation bias.
Data journalism expert Jonathan Albright has also spent some time mapping the right - wing alternative media ecosystem, including the connections between fringe sites that
were the largest channels for «
fake news» reports during the election.
Facebook
is running an advertising campaign that acknowledges it has had a problem with
fake news and the misuse of data and goes some way to apologizing for these issues.
What
's more, the original account
was likely a bot, demonstrating Twitter
's shortcomings in weeding out
fake and misleading
news and images.
The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution
are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook
was the chief venue for the spread of misleading
fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.
He didn't mention that the company will start asking for people
's input — as TechCrunch said, it
's a bit odd, since it
's the users who
are flooding the social network with
fake news to begin with.
In late November, Mark Zuckerberg explained what Facebook
is doing to get rid of
fake news, including improving its algorithm's ability to detect and making it easy to report them.
Here
's the good
news about feeling like a
fake at work - it
's super common.
This
is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of
fake news and disinformation campaigns.
The company said the entire blow up
was essentially a bad case of «
fake news.»
On Wednesday — when Sandberg
was attending a marketing conference in Germany — Facebook tightened its rules on who can make money from advertising on its network to make it harder for providers of
fake news and sensational headlines to cash in.
«The
FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @CNN, @NBCNews and many more)
is not my enemy, it
is the enemy of the American people,» he wrote.
«
Fake news,» they tweeted in response to NPR's tweet saying that all men
are created equal.
Following the now - common Trump White House communications strategy, he told Business Insider that the author of the Wall Street Journal report «
is the mastermind behind
fake news.»
And then we have the president using language that really
is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «
fake news» used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.
«
Fake news»
is a real phenomenon.
First
is the media sphere, where the agenda to curtail the spread of «
fake news» and the proliferation of bots
is «a direct threat to [Trump's] ability to maintain his popularity — and the appeal of his brand — and one he'll feel the need to combat.»
Google, in fact,
is going to
be — or already
is — dealing with
fake news using the following strategies:
But it
's a terrible pollution of the language for the president to call any article that criticizes him «
fake news.»
Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with,
was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating
fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should)
is FAKE NEWS!
In today
's age of
fake news, it probably doesn't come as a huge shock to you that false information might end up on the internet, but while posting utter nonsense has sadly come to
be expected in the political realm, it
's somewhat less expected in business reporting.
Thanks to social media, people
are able to filter out perspectives that don't match their own, creating an environment in which, disconcertingly,
fake news appears valid.
The headline
is 100 % accurate (I've written before about why it
's important not to contribute to the
fake news problem these days) but punches through an invisible barrier.
Certain themes emerge, in Google's 2016 report, on how the company
is fighting bad ads and scammers: Weight - loss, payday loans, tabloid cloaking,
fake news, pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, plus gambling come up time and again.
Since his election, President Trump has repeated «Make America Great Again» and «
fake news» in nearly every speech and press conference he has
been in.
When accusations
were flying at Facebook for allegedly helping spread
fake news about the 2016 US election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded by saying the idea that Facebook had any serious impact on the election
was a «crazy» one.
Trump, just back from a trip to Asia, attacked the
news network again on Wednesday morning, writing on Twitter: «While in the Philippines I
was forced to watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and
FAKE, it
is.
In this era of «
fake news,» show customers who you really
are: Stay true to yourself.
«I don't utter [the term] «
fake news,»» Conway said, adding that her concern
is instead with «incomplete coverage» of the president.
However, the Financial Times reported that the government has fresh concerns caused by Fox
being named in a U.S. lawsuit filed last week that alleges it disseminated «
fake news» on the murder of Seth Rich, an aide to the Democratic Party.
Facebook
is a victim of «
fake news» and does not want it on the platform, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
With all of the
Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point
is it appropriate to challenge their License?
The IRA and other Russian - linked entities
were also alleged by the DOJ to have spread
fake news and misleading online advertising on social networks like Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr).
In some ways, Google's mistakes
are arguably more dangerous than the
fake news that circulates on Facebook.