Sentences with phrase «of fake companies»

It could be one of those fake companies that open business today that will suddenly disappear into the thin air.

Tired of creating an endless stream of fake companies to buy your politicians?

Not exact matches

So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.

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.

And, does it invite start - ups to fake it, using wives or girlfriends as the illusory heads of a companies that are actually run by their husbands or boyfriends?

Trump has repeatedly attacked Bezos and the two companies he owns, Amazon and the Post, accusing them of dodging taxes or publishing «fake news,» among other things.

That feature led to one of the early failures of the iReport system in 2008, when a fake report about Apple CEO Steve Jobs having a heart attack hit the site and briefly influenced the share price of the company.

I knocked Mark Zuckerberg yesterday for copping out on the issue of fake news on his company's platform.

This will show that company culture isn't just platitudes and truisms plastered on the walls, together with trendy logos and stock photos of fake smiles.

The company said the entire blow up was essentially a bad case of «fake news.»

In the most recent scandal, Kushner Companies has been accused of faking documents for about 34 of its New York City properties and low - balling the number of rent - controlled tenants in these buildings, according to the Associated Press.

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

This is the latest in a series of moves by internet companies to prevent extreme or fake content from appearing on their sites.

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.

«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.»

(Reuters)-- An unidentified American company was defrauded last year out of nearly $ 100 million by individuals who created a fake email address in order to pose as one of its legitimate vendors, U.S. authorities said on Thursday.

The person, who was not authorized to speak for attribution, said the office regularly hears from companies that are victims of similar phishing swindles involving fake suppliers, but the Facebook case stood out for its scale.

According to the lawsuit, the perpetrators carried out the scam by creating a fake email address that resembled that of one of the company's vendors in Asia.

Over the past eight weeks, thousands of publishers have been subject to bots creating fake versions of their websites, a technique called «domain spoofing,» according to a paper published Wednesday by ad technology company Adform.

These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies created systems where fake news stories spread more easily than factual reports.

He goes on to say that they meddle in the marketing of their portfolio companies because «we can fake it far more convincingly than in other areas...» As I always say, marketing is like sex; everyone thinks they're good at it.

Defending Facebook against charges that its algorithm promoted fake news stories that may have influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg implied that the company can only go so far without compromising on its commitment to neutrality.

Pfizer (pfe), and at least one major newspaper, got fooled by a fake press release claiming the company would no longer increase the prices of its drugs.

The social media company also disclosed that it had earned $ 1.9 million in advertising revenue from RT since 2011 and said it would donate that money to research fake news and the civil impact of Twitter.

If a bunch of untrained amateurs can identify fake news being promoted on Facebook or YouTube, then so can a bunch of super-geniuses working at companies approaching trillion - dollar valuations.

And it might also help mitigate some of the criticism the company has been getting about the rise of «fake news» on the network.

Keep in mind, by fraud we mean creating fake campaigns or companies, which is different from the legal concept of fraud which focuses on false representation.

Thanks to IP address tracking, observers can also quickly tell when company figureheads adopt fake identities for the sake of fluffing up their reputation.

A Wall Street Journal investigation earlier this year linked companies controlled by Canada Drugs through its wholesale division to a shipment of a fake cancer drug, though the FDA hasn't reached a conclusion.

«One of the methods that was used was fake individuals and shell companies had taken mortgages on some of these properties, and for all of them they had produced fake insurance and title insurance,» he said.

The company has taken a number of steps to try to stamp out fake news, including setting up a process whereby it takes fact - checking and verification efforts from third - party outlets like Politifact and Snopes, and shows users when a particular story is being questioned or has been debunked.

In an article published April 24, the Chronicle reported that Cloud was, in fact, a fake entity created by the parent company of Student Loan Report, Shop Tutors, which also does business as LendEDU.

In December, the company announced plans to address the issue of fake news on its website.

Software from Emotient (which Apple bought last year), Affectiva, and other companies can discern your emotions by analyzing your face, and it can tell whether your emotion is real of fake.

Companies take shortcuts instead of putting forth the requisite effort (such as Wells Fargo creating thousands of fake accounts for their customers) which harm their own bottom lines.

Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.

The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating «fake news», the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading his committee's investigation in a statement early Sunday morning indicating that both companies would be called in for more questioning.

It seems that buying and melting companies, that guy who stands in the vault with fake security guards with the gold coins and other companies of their ilk have finally come into the mainstream of the American consumers» consciousness.

In January, the New York Times published a lengthy report on the business of buying and selling fake followers on social media, which focused on a single obscure American company named Devumi.

Instead, he told me, a broader evolution had taken place in the company «across a number of these issues, whether it's foreign interference or fake news or the Cambridge Analytica data - privacy issue recently.»

First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any of this; while the company denies this report in Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2

Jacky also confirmed reports in local news media that many drivers log fraudulent Uber rides using fake passenger accounts to get some of the bonuses the company is offering.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

In 2016, for instance, the company replaced the human editors of its Trending Topics module with robots — and fake news promptly began trending.

While the company spent heavily on TV ads and discounts to woo consumers, its operations were plagued with poor technology, accounts of swindling by fake restaurants, and theft by employees and contractors, the Mint newspaper reported in September.

In it, the Facebook CEO waded through some of the company's most pressing issues, including how to deal with fake news and help support good journalism and how to deal with governing a community of 2 billion people.

One of the things that Howard Schilit pointed out in his very informative work is the fact that companies can not fake a dividend.

Now, the company is reportedly launching an internal probe of potential conservative bias and it will be led by a man who's spread fake news that just won't die.

The former owner of Giokas Wealth Advisors in Williamsville also admitted using a fake company, Trinity Council LLC, as part of a scheme to solicit investments he knew were fraudulent.

After all, there are all sorts of unfair tax rules and abuses, including large corporations shifting income overseas to avoid Canadian taxes, the ability to deduct and split the fat pensions of government employees and even the ability for some to set up fake private companies to benefit from small business tax provisions.