Sentences with phrase «of fake facts»

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Between politicians» cries of «fake news,» fact - free partisan shouting, and the explosion of intentionally misleading information online, we all run a greater risk than ever before of falling for someone else's half - baked ideas or artfully spun untruths.

In fact, by one recent estimate, about 36 % of all the traffic on the web is fake — «the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites.»

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.

For example, the plague of fake news and abusive social media posts has spawned a new role: the social media news fact checker.

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.

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.

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 Feeds.

A new Monmouth University Poll out today says Americans are concerned, in fact, 77 percent of the respondents believe «fake news» is reported at least occasionally in mainstream media.

And to make sure it doesn't get embroiled in questions about what's considered fake and real, Facebook will work with fact - checking organizations that are part of Poynter's International Fact - Checking Netwfact - checking organizations that are part of Poynter's International Fact - Checking NetwFact - Checking Network.

You know, in fact we have a person that - we hired an intern who physically clicks on all of the sites that are available to us through programmatic so she's gone through 10,000 sites and has eliminated any sites that are associated with hake and fake news.

In 2014, while he was doing a fellowship at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Silverman launched a web - based startup called Emergent.info that was devoted to crowdsourcing the fact - checking of fake news.

After weeks of denying that the spread of viral «fake news» stories was a problem that it needed to be concerned about, Facebook (fb) has finally announced some concrete measures designed to blunt the force of hoaxes and misinformation, including a partnership with external fact - checking organizations who call out fakes.

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.

January 11: Facebook announces the Facebook Journalism Project, to work with publishers on product rollouts, storytelling formats, promotion of local news, subscription models, training journalists, and, on the fake news front, collaborating with the News Literacy Project and fact checking organizations.

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

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

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

In addition to the fact that a clear majority of Democrats now believe that traditional media outlets report fake news at least occasionally, the poll also finds that a majority of Republicans (53 %) feel this happens on a regular basis (up from 37 % in 2017).

About 2 years ago I wrote a post about fake accounts on social media where I addressed this concept of accounts following you on Instagram and Twitter and, if you decide to hook up with them, instantly dropping you after the fact.

To publish these types of stories, you probably will need to have a large, yet nimble team to make sure you aren't missing out on breaking news, as well as someone to fact - check so you don't break fake stories and hurt your credibility.

Due to this fact, without being careful, you can lose hard earned money in the hands of fake BTC exchanges.

The fact that some faked their loyalties well back in the day is why we have a minority of psychopaths and sociopaths which survive in our population today.

But with the ever expanding growth of the internet it was just a matter of time before fake news publications caught up with those dedicated to delivering facts.

The fact that there is NO mention of him having a radically different skin color than everyone around him shows clearly its all fake and made up.

The Vatican supported the Transatlantic slavery too the west for over 300 years the past leaders of the phony Pope leaders was no different from slave salesman and slave ownership the Vatican is a fake azz false idolatry hates the fact its been exposed as one big fairy lies

He also could have easily placed the fake bones on dinosaurs under the ground to test those lacking in faith... as well as removed any evidence of the global flood after the fact because leaving definitive proof of biblical events is unnecessary when all you should really need is faith...

In fact, pretty much every time believers foolishly allow the impartial investigation of «holy objects» (shroud of Turin, black madonna, for example) they are shown to be fakes.

Despite the fact that they specifically target religious insti tutions, and proclaim as you do that the God of Abraham is fake..

To gerald, you are right, this is not proof that god does not exist, its just proof that people who associate and live their life around a fake «thing» tend to believe that other things are fake (law) when in fact their whole life and thier meaning of life (god) is fake.

Like most fake news stories, it wasn't based on any real events of facts, but is a work of complete fiction meant to fool readers in order to generate clicks and social media shares.

In fact, arguing that it's possible to fake a person's existence is only supportive of the argument that jesus was a fake.

Faked out everyone in the church I was in, to the point of the leaders believing his (later proved fake) out - of - this - world credentials and hiring him right away as an assistant pastor (he never did any work, and appropriated church resources to promote himself at the expense of the church — when people brought those nagging facts up, he would persuade people to cut him slack and «forgive him», making them feel guilty if they didn't).

There is a lot of science to back up the fact that there are a lot of fake sommeliers out there.

To give you an idea of the scale of counterfeiting within the global beverage industry, earlier this year Interpol reported it had seized a staggering one million litres of illicit drinks across 57 countries as part of an operation Opson V. 1Some 10,000 litres of fake or adulterated alcohol were seized in the UK, while 36,000 litres were seized in Burundi, highlighting the fact that counterfeiting is common in both developed and under - developed countries.

In fact, I stay clear of the «fake meat» products these days - a lot of them are hyper - processed, and use questionable ingredients.

The last refuge of a coward and a scoundrel is to post fake «facts».

As a matter of fact, the last interview I saw he got properly drilled (not like the fake sports journalist or pundits here) regarding his lack of recruitment in defence and NEVER «announce» what were the objectives!!

The fake illusion of the fact we were lucky to stay top for a few games, is now revealed.

It is a fact of life that if you truly love something you will not talk negatively about it in public as some of the fake fans do in these columns.

So this is not like the big MIRACLE of the tournament because they beat England, England is poor and thats a fact and the players with the fake confidence pumped up by the media!

in fact that is eating fake food most of the time.

Check out The Cloth Diaper Symposium for all of the facts and Kate's very fake apology.

In fact, the nonprofits have become so swamped by the political end - of - quarter fundraising that they've gone and created their own fake holiday date, just to have a date of their own around which to organize fundraising.

I guess Trump will lose a huge political advantage (because you can't say that something is fake with this kind of law in place), but wouldn't it give him a bigger advantage since every fake story will have too big consequences to run it before fact checking it?

You assume that there is a thing that can objectively be called «fake news», and that it comprises of stories containing false facts which can be disproven by fact - checking.

Further to that, when he is called out on a lie, the reaction is to lie further by accusing the press of creating «fake news» by fact - checking him.

Last week we were treated to stories of how the billionaire Mayor had authorized hundreds of thousands of dollars from his private slush fund to community groups, without Councilmanic authorization, which he then tried to fake after the fact.