Sentences with phrase «outright false news»
Many of the deliberately misleading or outright false news stories on Facebook are shared among regular users, and they often come from residents of the United States.
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Similar challenges arose during the campaign, when cable news outlets like CNN were challenged to state outright whether something was false at the moment the candidate was speaking, not hours later.
Agreed in the literal sense, but semantically there's a subtle distinction between «fake» and «false»; Trump mostly seems to be targetting non-stories, i.e. deceptive tactics that are intended to mislead, rather than outright falsehoods: inviting panels of biased «experts»; cutting people off after asking a loaded question; making news stories out of out - of - context soundbytes or by association, etc..