Sentences with phrase «of fake stories»

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It's good to hear that you think the self - healing benefits outweigh the annoyance of fake stories or misleading headlines.

If you were a first century fictiction writer, you might have wanted to leave that detail of the fake story out if it wasn't true.

The Ghanaian source of the information told me that this gay brouhaha began with the planting of a fake story in a national newspaper which claimed that 8000 people came out as gay and registered themselves with a United States - funded NGO in Western Ghana.

The Eye said that the man's suspicions were confirmed when he had a friend leave a voicemail concerning a fake story about EastEnders, and that same evening received call from a Sun reporter declaring that they had «proof» of the fake story.

Wintrich attempted to use the screenshot of the fake story to attack African Americans, despite the fact that no African Americans were implicated in the shooting.

Not exact matches

Clarke also criticized local Milwaukee media for getting «suckered» into «making a fake news story out of it because they love when people attack the sheriff.»

Although Facebook (fb) has downplayed the prevalence of fake news on its service, it's been steadily creating initiatives and debuting new technology to curtail bogus news stories.

Rather than just being «fake news,» many of the most - shared stories in this right - wing ecosystem «can more accurately be understood as disinformation,» the study says.

However, before entrepreneurs in the tech space try to figure out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another of the many PR fakes Apple has pulled over the years.

On a morning when President Donald Trump suggested the cancellation of NBC's broadcasting license because of stories he deemed «fake,» presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway called for «a full and free press» and said she doesn't use the term «fake news.»

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

He said that for people who routinely share fake news to their friends, Facebook will somehow warn them about the story and then show them more news stories of other viewpoints.

Within hours of the announcement on Thursday — which involves making it easier for users to flag fakes, as well as alerting readers when the accuracy of a story has been called into question — conservative outlets were already dismissing the move as a conspiracy of left - leaning partisans, designed to smother alternative sources and protect existing «gatekeepers.»

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.

Craig has already shown that he can take a really global view of the fake news story, and bring some real analytical rigor to it.»

The Milwaukee Social Democratic Herald, for example, decried syndicated fake news stories as «deliberate attempts to discredit the administration» of Milwaukee's democratically elected Socialist mayor, Emil Seidel.

They had good reason: They sought to challenge the growing numbers of powerful newspapers that were concocting fake stories to either sell papers or advance the interests of their corporate benefactors.

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.

«Fake news has been a really extraordinary story, and it turns out it's the kind of story Craig has been kind of preparing for for some time — maybe his whole life,» Smith said.

Hearst's shameless New York Journal tried to muddy the waters more, championing the cause of unveiling fake stories to deflect criticism of its own made - up stories.

Twitter users posted countless parodies of the false attack stories, including obviously faked images and stories that soon escalated into absurdity.

Facebook faced criticism in the last couple of months that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of fake news stories on its platform during the U.S. presidential campaign.

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.

When a recording of Green Leader Elizabeth May seeming to say Canadians are «stupid» popped up on the web, The Hook broke the story that the Greens were calling the tape a fake and threatening to sue a blogger and others over it.

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

Between «fake news,» Oscar mix - ups, and an adorably blundered BBC interview, it was a roller coaster of entertainment (at least that's what many of us are choosing to remember over the countless negative stories).

«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the social impact of technology, said of a recent post on Facebook.

During the 2017 polls, 90 % of Kenyans had heard or seen fake news stories related to the election, with a cross-section of the population using popular apps like WhatsApp and Facebook to spread misinformation.

Yet the US involvement was incongruous with president Trump's own stances, who questioned former president Barack Obama's birthplace for years without evidence, threw doubt on the accuracy of stories in US media outlets, and even doled out «fake news awards» in January to reputable news companies including the New York Times and Washington Post.

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.

[Note: the interviews for this poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while not directly a «fake news» issue, is related to the topic.]

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.

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

Fox News is carefully choosing the stories to cover, and the kinds of words it uses to cover those stories, to shape an alternate reality in which Trump's alleged affair with a porn star is yet another piece of fake news.

The testimonies they show on the sales page are obviously fake, and the whole story and approach seem to be of low quality.

Sleeping Money Machine is one of those binary systems that use fake testimonies and stories in order to promote their product.

The last point remins me of the fake outrage the happened when Samuel L Jackson read a Christmas story.

I asked her what she thought of that story and she, as a child, was able to evaluate her own lived experience of the world and respond, «that sounds fake».

Fortunately the Christian fundamentalists just sit on their butts and make up fake stories of their «martyrdom» (oh, no, can't force the local atheists to pray... we're martyrs!)

Both of these stories have been exposed as fakes of course, but that didn't keep hundreds of thousands of conservative Christians from sharing them online this week.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

According to The Christian Post, the trouble started after a fake Facebook page — that was meant to resemble an actual news station — released a story accusing one of the family's 18 - year - old sons of blaspheming Islam.