Sentences with phrase «of spreading fake news»

This shows how the issue of spreading fake news goes beyond social media giant Facebook — a platform that has been accused of leading the way when it comes to spreading rumors and fake news.

Last year, May publicly pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of spreading fake news online and weaponising misinformation.

Under the measures proposed by the Indian government, anyone would be able to file a complaint against a journalist or organization suspected of spreading fake news.

The 13 Russians charged are all connected to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian «troll factory» accused of spreading fake news stories through US social media.

Dropbox may not be mired by accusations of spreading fake news or mishandling personal user data, but it is growing in an environment tainted by a lack of employee diversity.

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Facebook had also failed to prevent the spread of fake news on its service in prelude to the 2016 presidential elections.

Internet inventor Tim Berners - Lee has urged Google, Facebook and others to combat the spread of fake news online, in an open message

And during his remarks he talked about the spread of fake news on social networks and how that could weaken democracy.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

First is the media sphere, where the agenda to curtail the spread of «fake news» and the proliferation of bots is «a direct threat to [Trump's] ability to maintain his popularity — and the appeal of his brand — and one he'll feel the need to combat.»

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

Earlier in February, a top aide of Macron's also accused Russia of hacking attempts and spreading fake information about him in Kremlin - backed news outlets.

Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.

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 include the spread of fake news by Russian trolls and the alleged exploitation of Facebook user data by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

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).

Newspapers and magazines have spent more than a decade now hemorrhaging revenue, staff, and reach thanks to the collapse of print advertising, but recent outcry about the spread of «fake news» may have motivated Google and Facebook to provide more support to trusted publishers.

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.

In addition to spreading fake news, Russian Facebook accounts went one step further by organizing events, rallies, and protests, some of which galvanized dozens of people.

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.

The cross-party group spent more than an hour attacking YouTube and Google for its role in spreading fake news, contributing to the decline of journalism, and on its spending on removing abusive or misleading content.

«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.»

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

He says Facebook will look for new ways to stop the spread of fake news, but he also argues that «we must proceed very carefully» and that Facebook must be «extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.»

Clearly Moscow's use of the platform to spread fake news and warp the 2016 elections is one problem.

Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance, not just engagement.

Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.

Manny Mogato, a journalist with Reuters in the Philippines and this year's winner of the McLuhan Fellowship, will be presenting on the spread of fake news in the Philippines and how this undermines the news media's role.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

Facebook has tried other ways to stem the spread of fake news.

Washington, DC, March 21, 2018 — Barraged by accusations of spreading divisive fake news and amid new allegations that it handed over personal information on up to 50 million users without their consent, Facebook is losing the faith of the American people, according to a new Digital Citizens Alliance survey.

Now, the company is reportedly launching an internal probe of potential conservative bias and it will be led by a man who's spread fake news that just won't die.

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.

Even though social media may not be the principal culprit in spreading fake news, fully 69 % of Americans say that these sites are not doing enough to stop the spread of fake news on their platforms.

In 2017, Facebook began taking drastic measures to reduce the spreading of fake news.

The public feels that social media platforms are partly to blame for the spread of fake news and are not doing enough to stop it.

Most Americans (60 %) say that social media sites are partly responsible for the spread of fake news but that other media sources are more responsible.

Are social media sites like Facebook and YouTube currently doing enough or not doing enough to stop the spread of fake news on their sites?

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

This compares to 29 % who say that social media sites are mostly responsible for the spread of fake news.

After vowing to crack down on the spread of «fake news,» social networks are facing a new deluge of misinformation in the wake of last week's shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead, with some calling the young survivors actors and pawns.

Companies like Facebook and Google have had an outsize effect on political discourse because of the ways their algorithms help to promote and spread fake news and propaganda.

Trump believes that Amazon has not paid its fair share of «internet taxes,» and has accused The Washington Post of spreading «fake news.»

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.

Only recently, they said, after revelations that Russia - aligned hackers had deployed networks of Twitter bots to spread divisive content and junk news, has Twitter turned more attention to weeding out fake accounts.

From anger over the alleged spreading of «fake news» during US elections to complaints of unfair competition and tax dodging in Europe, there are growing signs that people are losing patience with big - tech disruptors.

It has even started to ask users to rate the «trustworthiness» of news organizations in an effort to weed out those that may be spreading so - called fake news.