Sentences with phrase «of being fake news»

Meanwhile, the button will also unveil Related Articles on all links where Facebook can generate them, rather than only if the article is popular or suspected of being fake news as Facebook had previously tested.

But you could do without the acusation of me being a fake news master.

None of this is fake news.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

But it's a terrible pollution of the language for the president to call any article that criticizes him «fake news.»

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.

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?

But, with fake news posts stealing the spotlight thanks to the popularity of their ridiculous headlines and outlandish content, proposed changes to Facebook's news feed make it seem as though the social media giant is trying to make things harder, especially for small businesses who rely on content marketing.

After initially dismissing the issue of fake news and its role in distributing it, Facebook recently started working with third - party fact - checking groups and is now flagging stories that have been called into question or whose accuracy has been disputed.

Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.

Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.

U.S. technology firms would be caught in the crossfire of a trade war, darkening the outlook for a crucial sector already under attack for accelerating the dissemination of «fake news» and failing to safeguard users» personal data.

Journalists say proliferation of fake news can largely be pinned to the economic incentive underlying producing it.

The Trump administration's combative view of traditional news media as the «opposition party» and «fake news» is turning out to be the best hope in 2017 for newspapers struggling to attract more digital readers and advertisers.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

«You know, personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,» he told Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.»

Facebook also played a role, given the fact that huge numbers of people rely on it for news, and much of that news was either distorted or outright fake.

In particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favor.

The two most discussed concerns this past year were about diversity of viewpoints we see (filter bubbles) and accuracy of information (fake news).

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News Fenews: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News FeNews Feeds.

«Users have all sorts of opinions about what news counts as «fake,» which is, of course, exactly the problem,» reads a Vox explainer about the change.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald and others have said this is one of the problems with Facebook deciding what «fake news» is.