Sentences with phrase «of false news»

Alvin Tan, Facebook's head of public policy for Southeast Asia said that the city - state already had a variety of laws and regulations which address hate speech, defamation and the spreading of false news, and a new one will not be the best way to address the issue of misinformation.

Lot's of false news.

That's true for everything from the secret algorithms that recommend «people you might know» to data on its attempts to clamp down on the spread of false news.

This could reduce the spread of false news image memes that live on Facebook and require no extra clicks to view, like doctored photos showing the Parkland school shooting survivor Emma González ripping up the constitution.

They're hard, but they're things that if you invest and work on making it harder for adversaries to do what they're trying to do, you can really reduce the amount of false news, make it harder for foreign governments to interfere.

Facebook's four - part plan includes combating foreign interference, removing fake accounts, increasing ads transparency, and reducing the spread of false news.

Company leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter - profiling company.

Fast forward to today and you might be surprised to learn how many laws we have against the spread of false news.

«Now behavioral interventions become even more important in our fight to stop the spread of false news,» Aral says.

Apparently exasperated at the effect of the false news, the High Commissioner tweeted that, «whoever started the false rumour about the supposed arrest of a Ghanaian party official at Heathrow today — thanks for messing up my Sunday!»

In fact, the only political activity (incitement is not political activity) which remains illegal is «willfully spreading of false news of the American army and navy with an intent to disrupt their operations, to foment mutiny in their ranks, or to obstruct recruiting.»

Facebook's four - part plan includes combating foreign interference, removing fake accounts, increasing ads transparency, and reducing the spread of false news.

Company leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter - profiling company.

The worst kinds of false news aren't even the most obvious kinds — the clear fakes or ridiculous assertions — the Microsoft researcher and former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center says:

The proliferation of false news stories and hoaxes, many of which come from fraudulent domains that pretend to be real news publishers, has been a problem for Facebook for some time.

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This behavior has sparked a kind of existential debate within the U.S. news media: How should a news organization respond when the President makes false statements or repeats unsupported claims?

We now know that Russian - sponsored trolls used phony accounts and networks of automated «bots» to stoke controversies and seed the news ecosystem with false narratives during the 2016 presidential election.

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.

The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false «rumor cascades,» on Twitter between September 2006 and December 2016.

Joshua Benton, head of the Nieman Journalism Lab, described in a recent essay how residents of the small Louisiana town he was raised in posted and re-posted hoaxes and false news reports about Hillary Clinton and other topics on Facebook.

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 Fenews: 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 FeNews Feeds.

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).

Facebook has also struggled recently with keeping its news feed free of misleading or false stories, including the kinds of discourse that NimbleAmerica seems intended to promote.

Bloomberg's Michael C. Bender posted this video of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi telling Gov. Rick Scott the (false) news that the Supreme Court had overturned the Affordable Care Act.

News of the World operatives reportedly deleted some messages from the phone's voicemail, giving the girl's parents false hope that she was still alive.

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

«The most high profile of these issues is the phenomenon of «fake news,» where content on the web has contributed to the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information.»

This work also reduces the distribution of content that violates our policies, since fake accounts often distribute deceptive material, such as false news, hoaxes, and misinformation.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

«Some pump and dumps use false news reports, typically about a famous high - tech business leader or investor who plans to pour millions of dollars into a small, lesser known virtual currency or coin.

In an email, the lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said Ms. Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, «has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

The bad news is that bitcoin's price has dropped, and if the Chinese rumors are false, then we're no closer to finding the true cause of the drop.

It was also rumored he would do so with former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, to which Trump shut down as part of this «false rumor.»

The anti-gunners have used various tools in the war, from false - flag events to biased media coverage of them to the complete blackout of any news that supports the Second Amendment.

We deployed a number of new tools that we'd developed to find fake accounts who were trying to spread false news, and we got them off before a lot of the discussion around the election.

Side note: Most of the news stories about Bitcoin getting «hacked» are false.

Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said it was «deplorable» that as the time for the Roman Catholic cardinals to elect a new pope approaches, a rash of «often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories» has appeared.

They quoted the prophets to reveal that salvation had always been intended for all people, and Israel had been «chosen'to produce the Redeemer and bring this good news to all the world — not to be the only recipients of God's favor, as their false teachers proclaimed.

The fact that social media is a false, curated, happy memories - only collection of your life is not news to any of us.

Science and Religion News Science and Scientism At the heart of the natural sciences is falsifiability, the ability to prove a theory false by experiment or observation.

Clive Ireson, director of strategy at the Association of Christian Teachers agrees with the findings, speaking on Premier's News Hour, he said: «Children know if they've done something good or not in their work and if people say «oh that's very good», and it isn't, then it's just false.

News Flash, you wrote «RB --- Let me guess... the definition of a false prophet is someone that disagrees with you??

The idea of «hate speech» is too vague, and preventing the dissemination of «false news» is a legal impossibility.

During a news programme a few days later, the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena referred to the talk show without naming Dias and dismissed his claims as false referencing the Archbishop of Colombo's Cardinal Malcom Rajinth, who reportedly said that he was unaware of the incidents Dias mentioned.

The do no research, report false news stories and they work for Rupert Murdoch (the paragon of ethics)-- which by itself, should be enough for anyone to hit another channel number on the remote.

For such people metaphor not only promises more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on false consciousness, so that a loss of faith in it is the beginning of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad news for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.»

His second book, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hopes, is set to be published by Moody in April 2011.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

I honestly disregard most news segments that have «scientific findings» because they almost always report false info in lieu of getting ratings.