Sentences with phrase «of spreading false news»

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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.

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).

«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.

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.

Facebook has apologised for threatening to impose controls on a Christian news satire website accused of spreading false information.

Some of us are day dreamers.let us allow the manager to look for a good players to boost the current quad for next season, stop confusing us with wrong information like some papers in the mole of metro spreading false news every day and now pls

There was a lot of rumors regarding the highly rated midfielder's future as many news outlets spread out false information about Ozil leaving the club either this January transfer window or in the summer as a free player after he ran out a contract.

Besides the sponsorship, Google's most visible role in the proceedings fell to Elliot Schrage, the company's VP for Global Communications, whose Thursday afternoon presentation made a little news here, there and elsewhere, particularly his comments about the Viacom / YouTube lawsuit and the ease with which false information can spread through the «net (his defense of Google China got less notice).

In the aftermath of the attacks, social media is often filled with people spreading false news reports and hatred, typically towards Muslims.

Now you could prove that the information that I kicked a dog is false, so the news network is guilty of spreading a piece of false information.

As a result, a lot of what is being spread in the news and on social media, are more false than fiction.

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.»

«When we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood, «says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.

The indictment of 13 Russians in the operation of a «troll farm» that spread false information related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election has renewed the spotlight on the power of «fake news» to influence public opinion.

An analysis of how true and false news stories spread on Twitter reveals that false news spreads substantially faster, and to far more people.

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

«On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories, study finds: Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.»

Discussions of false stories tended to start from fewer original tweets, but some of those retweet chains then reached tens of thousands of users, while true news stories never spread to more than about 1,600 people.

Alas, Jacob's news spreads like wildfire, and this film, which was directed with much passion by Frank Beyer from Holocaust survivor Jurek Becker's script, goes on to reveal what a double - edged sword hope can be when it is after all false and when the threat of deportation to concentration camps is constant.

These «men of God» begin to spread lies and false rumors about her to everyone they can, turning most of her family and friends against her, not realizing that they are leaving their own families and congregations open for the destruction they have planned for Sidney.It is with all this going on that God seems to be nowhere in sight, but don't worry... God is not mocked and sometimes He provides help in the most unexpected ways.The Good News Series: Enough Good NewsNo WeaponBlind JusticeLong NightEven MeThird Watch * coming winter 2012

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

In the past year, we've worked to destroy the business model for false news and reduce its spread, stop bad actors from meddling in elections, and bring a new level of transparency to advertising.

In 2017, last year, during the special election, the senate seat in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools that we built to detect fake accounts that were trying to spread false news and we found a lot of different accounts coming from Macedonia.

The social network was one of the top tools used by Russians to spread false news, and the company's executives have struggled to explain what happened and how they would prevent foreign interference in the future.

A now - restricted Twitter account falsely purporting to belong to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly spread a false image of a person who is not the suspect (the image's presence on message boards like 4chan predates the shooting):

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

He said the social network has 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,» he said.

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.

The inclusion of local news broadcasts might help prevent the spread of false information, a common occurrence in a situation such as this.

In 2017 with the special election in Alabama, we deployed some new A.I. tools to identify fake accounts and false news, and we found a significant number of Macedonian accounts that were trying to spread false news, and were able to eliminate those.

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.

In the largely unregulated world of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, fraudsters are getting rich by deliberately spreading false information to affect the price of their holdings using social media, scam news sites, and private chat apps.

«Last year in 2017 with the special election in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools to identify fake accounts and false news, and we found a significant number of Macedonian accounts that were trying to spread false news, and were able to eliminate those,» Zuckerberg said.

Facebook continues its fight against fake news and announced new measures to ensure that false information has little or no chance of getting spread around.

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.