Sentences with phrase «of fake reports»

Check out criticism of the fake report from climate scientists at the Daily Climate and additional comparison from Professor Scott Mandia.

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According to a report from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the Cavaliers held an»em otional» team meeting on Monday, at which teammates accused Love of faking an illness on Saturday to get out of their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

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.

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.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

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.

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

According to reports, the woman, Lori Drew, had established a fake MySpace account for a fictitious 18 - year - old boy in hopes of finding out what the girl was saying about her daughter online.

The scandal emerged in 2014 with the release of a university - commissioned report led by the investigator Kenneth Wainstein that found widespread enrollment in fake classes at the university.

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).

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

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.

The Syrian government denied its forces had launched a chemical assault, while Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, called the reports fake and warned against military action on the basis of «invented and fabricated excuses.»

Alas, Chanel told Canadian Business Monday morning that the sign, the first reports of which appeared over the weekend, is fake.

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.

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.

Cindy T. White, 41, of Slidell, Louisiana, took the phrase «fake it «till you make it» to new levels in 2015 when she assumed the identity of another woman in order to land a job as a human resources manager, PayScale reports.»

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.

We build and update technical systems every day to make it easier to respond to reports of abuse, detect and remove spam, identify and eliminate fake accounts, and prevent accounts from being compromised.

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.

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

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.

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 reports as early as March 2014, Daiwa outlined how fake export invoicing, metals purchases and disguised foreign investment had driven $ 1 trillion of hot money inflows.

This makes a farce of Facebook's suggestion earlier this week that to get it to take down fake ads I have to report them to it.»

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.

This makes a farce of facebook's advice previous this week that to get it to take down fake adverts I must report them to it.»

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.

Feb 8 Twitter Inc on Thursday reported its first quarterly net profit and topped Wall Street targets as video ad sales rose, but the number of people using the social network fell short of expectations as Twitter shut down fake accounts.

Today's report is one of the first to shed light on the machinations taking place in the shadows: a sketchy digital economy where fake accounts known as bots, some modeled on real users, are bought and sold — the lifeblood of a booming trade in influence and deception.