Sentences with phrase «of hoax news»

That bias manifested Sunday as the promotion of hoax news stories about Megyn Kelly getting fired from Fox News for supporting Hillary Clinton.

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

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Inc. exclusively revealed last week that the website, the source of many of the most - shared news hoaxes benefiting Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, is operated by Ovidiu Drobota, a 24 - year - old based in Romania.

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.

After Republican Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race Tuesday, numerous media outlets are raising questions about whether hoax news played a notable role in the candidate's rise and in stoking sharp divisions among users of differing political views.

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.

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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«Spammers make money by masquerading as well - known news organizations, and posting hoaxes that get people to visit to their sites, which are often mostly ads,» Adam Mosseri, Facebook vice president of news feed, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

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.

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.

Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax and a friend of Trump, did tell ABC News This Week that Trump considered the Daniels story a «political hoax.»

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.

After reporters pointed it out, YouTube removed the video for violating its policy against harassment, which was updated last year to include «hoax videos that target the victims» of breaking news tragedies.

A news outlet described her article as one of several web hoaxes that year.

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

The advisory turned heads for more reasons than just the news value of Ms. Moskowitz saying something about her political plans — on Twitter, many reporters wondered if the press release was perhaps a hoax.

If you get your news from social media, as most Americans do, you are exposed to a daily dose of hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories and misleading news.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

By now, anyone with a news feed knows of the the Manti Te'o / Lennay Kekua hoax, or what is known in the vernacular as catfishing.

Despite worldwide reports on Friday (18 August) that the role of Harry Potter had been filled, it seems the news was nothing more than a spurious internet hoax that got out of control.

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While concerns have been raised about the ability of readers with a political agenda to «block» legitimate news by flagging it as hoax - worthy content, other sources have said it's about time users had steps to take to help prevent comedic attempts from being misconstrued as factual content.

Watch it once to learn more about the three most feared and respected motorcycle clubs and a second time to read the scrolling news ticker — I knew it was only a matter of time before scientists proved global warming is a liberal hoax!

The fact that Trump has called global warming a «hoax» was mentioned in nearly a quarter of all segments about climate change on the nightly news and Sunday morning programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2017 — and in more than a third of those instances, the networks didn't push back by affirming that human - driven climate change is a reality.

The CEO of Murray Energy has described climate change as a «hoax» while attacking the EPA on Fox News.

It's hardly a secret that Fox News sets and follows a politically motivated agenda — convincing folks climate change is a hoax is just one of its planks.

No matter what you say, they will continue to assert that there is no issue here, it's all a hoax, that in fact the extra carbon is actually good for earth (echoes of radiation hormesis), but not acknowledge the overwhelming bad news about climate change.

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A good call in the era of everyday fake news, like the inevitable celebrity death hoax, or everyday news that could easily be fake (Lady Doritos: almost an actual thing.)

He also has become a major supporter of other efforts to fight news hoaxes and ensure the public gets real facts and information.

As Quartz reports, the hoax coincided with the overall market value of Ethereum falling by around $ 4 billion after the news was posted on Sunday night.

This cycle — of journalists, researchers, and others spotting — with the simplest of search queries — hoaxes and fake news long before the platforms themselves repeats itself after every major mass shooting and tragedy.

It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make reporting hoaxes easier and disrupt the financial incentives of fake news spammers.

Shooting hoaxes multiply: After seeing news about the shooting, a string of false threats after the massacre is terrorizing schoolchildren at some other schools in South Florida.

Maybe you're seeing less of them in the News Feed, but there's nothing to prevent a crazy friend from commenting on your post with a link to a well - known hoax site, as if it's nNews Feed, but there's nothing to prevent a crazy friend from commenting on your post with a link to a well - known hoax site, as if it's newsnews.

Outside of Trending, Facebook continues to be filled with inaccurate, poorly - sourced, or outright fake news stories, rumors and hoaxes.

Facebook is making yet another change in its News Feed today, designed to reduce the number of stories that could offer false information or be deliberate hoaxes.

«The most obvious way in which Facebook enabled a Trump victory has been its inability (or refusal) to address the problem of hoax or fake news,» declares New York Magazine's Max Read.

We always work to make News Feed more meaningful and informative, and that includes examining the quality and accuracy of items shared, such as clickbait, spam and hoaxes.