Sentences with phrase «of fake news reports»

The campaign followed the same pattern of fake news reports and videos, this time under the hashtag #EbolaInAtlanta, which briefly trended in Atlanta.

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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.

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.

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.»

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.

While Google's 2016 report makes no mention of fake news, these types of ads also fall under the category of «misleading.»

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.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

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.

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.

The deal also shows that Apple is distancing itself as a purveyor of so - called fake news, the false and misleading news reports that have spread on social media networks like Facebook (fb) and Twitter (twtr).

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

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.

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

And the way that this has blurred the line is that Trump is not criticizing them and calling them «fake news» for incorrect reporting most of the time, it's just critical reporting.

Google announced changes to its search algorithm Tuesday that will combat the dissemination of «fake news» and conspiracy theories through new ways to report inaccurate information.

The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of «fake news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

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

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.

However, the number who believe that online news sources regularly report «fake news» has increased from 41 % a year ago to a majority of 52 % today.

Large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media.

When it comes to the meaning of «fake news,» a majority believe that it involves editorial decisions as well as inaccurate reporting.

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.

The 77 % who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63 % of the public who felt that way last year.

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).

The poll also finds that a large majority of the public (86 %) believe that online news websites also report fake news, which is up slightly from 80 % in March 2017.

Meanwhile, in Mexico: In Facebook news unrelated to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company took out full - page ads in Mexico with tips to help people recognize fake news ahead of the country's presidential election in July, Bloomberg reports.

Semantics, but still some companies may be reporting 3 weeks or more after the «start» of earnings season... FAKE BLACKOUT NEWS or HALF TRUTH?

Trump told reporters that rumors of a shake - up were «fake news,» and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has denied reports from the Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CNN that Trump has already decided to fire McMaster.

The Report's theme is fake news and politics in the age of Donald Trump.

Over the weekend, fake news site KCTV7 — which posts these types of lies for the sheer joy of watching the world burn --» reported» that...

Among all the reports of «fake news,» it turns out we have to worry about olive oil, too.

In the age of the interweb and social media these, please excuse me for this hatefull term «fake news» reports trend and give credence and then the clubs have to come out and either conferm or deny the reports.

3 thumbs down for accurate reporting... the world of fake news well and truly part of the wenger fan club

February 21 — The Chinese owner of AC Milan has described suggestions that he has been declared bankrupt as «fake news» amid unconfirmed reports in Italy that his assets will be auctioned off on Taobao, the Chinese equivalent of eBay, to settle his debts.

Most of us would agree that the blog posting of transfer «reports» comes into the category of Fake News and at best is hocus pocus.

In the wake of newspaper reports detailing the massive increase in UK liability claims as a result of injured and dead babies, Australian midwife Hannah Dahlen declared that the dead babies were «fake news.»

A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently observed that fake news is more readily consumed than the truth; An article in The Conversation reported that many Australians can not confidently recognise fake news, and researchers from The University of Canberra found that over a third of Australians used Facebook to get their news.

An attorney for Trump said that two additions to the legal team representing him in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation have changed their minds — just hours after the president tweeted that reports of lawyers not wanting to represent him are «Fake News.»

Trump accused the «dishonest press» of avoiding coverage of terror attacks during a Monday speech — just hours after blasting reports of negative poll ratings as «fake news» while insisting he's in charge at the White House.

For this reason, combating hate speech, fake news and other forms of reporting likely to inflame passion and trigger crisis will be of critical importance to the peaceful conduct of the elections.

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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.

The Trump administration, and the President, have also sought to pivot the label «fake news» from referring to largely fabricated reports describing fantastical and untrue events which veer often into paranoid, anti-authority conspiracy theory to a more insidious label applied to the press corps as a whole; but also specifically any press institution classed as critical of the Trump administration.

His tweet came hours after Trump addressed a conservative conference where he wailed on the media about reporting fake news and the use of unnamed sources in stories.

Tinubu described as a «classic case of utterly and irredeemably - fake news,» the report in a national daily (not The PUNCH) that he was being mooted as Buhari's running mate in 2019 to boost the APC's chances in the South - West.

The authors report that most of the fake news consumption was Pro-Trump, however, and heavily concentrated among a small ideological subgroup.

Examples of «fake news,» such as a report that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump's presidential campaign, are the equivalent of a bad cold in the body politic, says Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale University.

The AAAS Kavli lecturers will address science reporting in the age of fake news, accurate reporting on biomedical research and opportunities for science on television in a changing media landscape.