Sentences with phrase «of hoaxes on»

MICHAEL JORDAN was a victim of a hoax on Dec. 30 when someone purporting to be his brother called the Target Center at halftime of the Bulls» game against the Timberwolves.

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On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

It was behind four of the 10 most shared hoax stories on Facebook in the three months before November 8, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed.

We know, we study this, we know that it's a very small volume of anything,» he said, adding, «There have been hoaxes on the internet, there were hoaxes before.»

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.

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.

«This is an early test, and I'm going to keep a close eye on it to make sure we're fighting actual spam and hoaxes, and not limiting people's freedom of expression.»

Our goal is to reduce these hoaxes just like we fight other scams on our platform, but I want us to be especially careful about never being arbiters of truth ourselves — which is why we're working with third - party fact - checkers.

And in some ways, allowing those hoaxes and conspiracy theories on the platform keeps a subset of users happy.

Web site includes a rich collection of analyses, articles, updates on hoaxes, and alerts, including monthly «Top 10» virus list.

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

Even at the best of times, the online hacking subculture is notoriously untrustworthy — full of hoaxes, disinformation, and catfishing (impersonating people to defraud others on the internet).

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

Ahead of the November release of her first English - language album in six years, Dion was the subject of not one, but two death hoaxes on Facebook, and was in the process of selling her $ 72.5 - million Florida mansion and $ 30 - million Montreal manor to build a new residence in Las Vegas where she's reportedly signed a contract to perform at Caesars through 2019.

Viral hoaxes on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election reveal the limits of campaign finance laws and regulations.

«There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap),» the president wrote on his personal account.

While initial efforts to define and tackle this problem were focused on hoaxes, the root of the problem is that both good and bad content are incentivized by the same sets of tools and algorithmic changes.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

Russia and Syria dismiss as a hoax the claims that the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al - Assad used chemical weapons in the rebel - held enclave of Douma on April 7.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

Trump lashed out against the investigation in a familiar fashion Wednesday, saying on Twitter: «There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap).»

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical but sly arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

Christianity was a hoax played by the Greeks who wrote the new testament based on their Gods, all of whom were derived from Hinduism.

-- all of Christianity hangs on the reality of a risen Christ, if you can find a body, Christianity is a hoax.

Religion is a hoax that preys on those of the weak mind who are highly materialistic.

The more you know about religion and the supposed evidence for a god, the more obvious it becomes what a big hoax it's been on humans for the past thousands of years!

In that pseudo-scholarly publishing sensation, Michael Baigent and colleagues argued, on the basis of documents found in the Bibliothèque de Nationale but later exposed as a hoax, that the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene were part of the Merovingian royal line of the early Middle Ages.

The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State seems to exist, or is a very clever hoax posted on the net.

Choices, choices, choices, that's what happened to our once free - flowing, beautiful on the eyes brand of football... the move from Highbury was a friggin hoax played on all Gunner fans... North London football is now for the fat cats and wannabes, not for those of us who rather watch from home because we love the game and we would rather not pay a weeks wage to get a seat a 1/4 mile from the field of play... much like a high - end business that once cared deeply for the artisans who toiled to create something quite brilliant, they have become an assembly - line factory trying to get the most for the least while still raising the prices of their product..

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Brooklyn on Thursday said he plans to visit a Jewish museum that received a bomb threat, part of a rash of hoax threats leveled at Jewish targets in New York and around the country.

Townsend said he's «willing to believe it's possible,» but thinks much of the science that has been presented on the subject is a «hoax» and an attempt to «perpetrate a fraud on the American people.»

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.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Abuja, described as hoax the alarm raised by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers that his life was being threatened.

«The report by the Rivers State Government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleging the withdrawal of Wike's security aides and an assassination threat on the Governor is a hoax.

«That is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of New York,» said state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long, who opposed the casino referendum.

The Minority Leader of Ghana's Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described as a «hoax» the governing New Patriotic Party's (NPP) much touted free Senior High School policy which is to be fully rolled out on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

The statement partly read, «The report by the Rivers State government and the Peoples Democratic Party alleging the withdrawal of Wike's security aides and an assassination threat on the governor is a hoax meant to deflect attention from the reports of an arms build - up and other sinister plots the Wike - led PDP administration plans to execute on election day.

You can predict whether people think climate science is a hoax based on whether they believe in conspiracy theories, according to a 2012 University of Western Australia study.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

Trump has called climate change a hoax and has promised to refocus the EPA on protecting air and water quality, while scrapping many of Obama's initiatives to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

It sparked a famous 19th - century newspaper hoax in which astronomers were said to have found a society of «man - bats» on the moon.

I used to use the dihydrogen monoxide hoax on the first day of a class I taught about the public perception of science.

The «evils» of DHMO are part of a famous science hoax, a very funny one that supposedly began more than 20 years ago on the University of California, Santa Cruz, campus.

The hotheaded naked ice borer now has its own Wikipedia page and appears on lists of the greatest hoaxes of all time.

If they are wrong, «it will be worse than Piltdown» in terms of its effect on the field, as one anonymous observer put it, referring to the 1912 hoax that combined modern human and orangutan fragments.

A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.

(Actually, the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people was Lord Amherst's distribution of smallpox - ridden blankets, but I digress.)