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Facebook has sought to placate concerns about how fake news can spread on its platform by introducing various tools and processes intended to add more context around news content and / or try to limit the spread of fake news by hampering malicious actors.

These include the spread of fake news by Russian trolls and the alleged exploitation of Facebook user data by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

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.

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.

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.

In addition to spreading fake news, Russian Facebook accounts went one step further by organizing events, rallies, and protests, some of which galvanized dozens of people.

For weeks, the Journal drove circulation by denouncing dozens of newspapers — not just The World — who fell for the con and had copied or reprinted the Journal's fake news.

There's been a lot of attention focused over the past year on the rise of so - called «fake news,» a term that has even made its way into tweets by President Trump.

If Facebook and Google crack down on «fake news» sites, the Microsoft researcher argues, those who have an interest in generating that kind of content will find ways around the restrictions, as many already have by using visual «memes» instead of links to news stories.

They've included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of «fake news,» a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Those early concerns focused on «fake news,» some of it produced by profit - hungry websites simply looking to generate clicks.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

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 netwoNews 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 netwonews 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

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Washington, DC, March 21, 2018 — Barraged by accusations of spreading divisive fake news and amid new allegations that it handed over personal information on up to 50 million users without their consent, Facebook is losing the faith of the American people, according to a new Digital Citizens Alliance survey.

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.

At least one of the Britain First videos shared by US President Donald Trump this morning is fake news.

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.

«And everyday that goes by there's more evidence and more proof of Russia and fake news and Cambridge Analytica and misogyny and sexism.

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Government officials have accused the opposition coalition of using fake news to win votes and warned that any news about the indebted 1MDB state fund that has not been verified by the government is fake.

Like a growing number of people, he got fed up with the negativity that has beset Facebook in the form of Russian trolls, fake - news sites and hate - mongering by people who use it as a tool for their agendas.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

That is another fake idea planted in the brains of the uneducated by faux news and the like.

A solution the pope proposes for combating fake news on an individual basis: Listen to diverse sources instead of engaging with homogenous news environments: «Praiseworthy efforts are being made to create educational programs aimed at helping people to interpret and assess information provided by the media, and teaching them to take an active part in unmasking falsehoods, rather than unwittingly contributing to the spread of disinformation.»

The president himself has been a longtime supporter of conspiracy theories often espoused by Alex Jones on InfoWars, a far - right website that deliberately spreads propaganda and disinformation masked as real news, or as the president would actually call it, fake news.

The ads were seen by millions of users, and the protests launched by these fake news accounts were attended by actual voters.

With populist nationalism on the rise, there is fear among citizens that the operational aspects of democracy are being debilitated by elements such as «fake news,» corporate lobbyists and voter...

The Swede was lured to Dubai by Mazher Mahmood — better known as the «fake sheikh,» an undercover reporter for News of the World — ostensibly to discuss a role as a consultant at a soccer academy.

The torture and murder last week of a top election official and the deportation of two foreign Odinga advisers have fuelled wild online conspiracy theories and «fake news» items consumed voraciously by Kenya's tech - savvy population.

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.

Agreed in the literal sense, but semantically there's a subtle distinction between «fake» and «false»; Trump mostly seems to be targetting non-stories, i.e. deceptive tactics that are intended to mislead, rather than outright falsehoods: inviting panels of biased «experts»; cutting people off after asking a loaded question; making news stories out of out - of - context soundbytes or by association, etc..

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.

But why can't the president enforce some laws for news agencies so every story that was proven to be misleading / wrong / fake / dis - informative has to be either retracted and apologized for (not by adding one correction line, but running a whole new correction story) or fined accordingly for disinformation of general public?

Rural people who have only had internet access for 1 - 2 years are more confused by fake news and less wary of web message rumors and stories.

Anderson Cooper last night defended CNN's reporting of an intelligence briefing the president - elect reportedly received on Russia against a flurry of attacks by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, hours after Trump's accusation that the network aired «fake news.»

Rensselaer County Executive candidate Steve McLaughlin, who has been a subject of tough reporting by the Times Union, blasted the paper as a «rag» and «fake news» and pledged to never talk to the paper if elected.

Finally, let me use this opportunity to react to the fake news making the rounds concerning a supposed Sergeant in the Nigerian Army, named David Bako, who said he was part of an alleged conspiracy by the Government to abduct the Dapchi girls.

Head of Commons committee investigating «fake news» warns people will be «very frightened» by idea that Hitler's tactics were copied

In prepared testimony released Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which he is expected to deliver Wednesday, Zuckerberg apologizes for fake news, hate speech, a lack of data privacy and Russian social media interference in the 2016 elections.

(WBEN) The election victory scored last night by Montana's Greg Gianforte despite accusations of assaulting a reporter has pushed the entire «fake news» discussion into the spotlight again.

When we investigated what was happening, we found fake news stories about our research being predominantly shared by Twitter users within one partisan echo chamber, a large and homogeneous community of politically active users.

And on Twitter, an analysis by University of Southern California computer scientists found that nearly 20 percent of election - related tweets came from bots, computer programs posing as real people and often spouting biased or fake news.