Sentences with phrase «problem of fake news»

Sandberg also said that the Facebook would work hard to end the abuse of its platform by those seeking to hurt the democratic process around the world, and tackle the problem of fake news.

The problem of fake news will be addressed separately.

Facebook faced criticism in the last couple of months that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of fake news stories on its platform during the U.S. presidential campaign.

The media unleashed a wave of fury — similar to what we're hearing now with respects to the problems of fake news and hidden influence.

Not exact matches

Facebook is running an advertising campaign that acknowledges it has had a problem with fake news and the misuse of data and goes some way to apologizing for these issues.

«Users have all sorts of opinions about what news counts as «fake,» which is, of course, exactly the problem,» reads a Vox explainer about the change.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald and others have said this is one of the problems with Facebook deciding what «fake news» is.

Given the vast numbers of people who use Facebook daily, and the similarly large numbers of users who get a lot of their news there, it's incumbent on Zuckerberg to be part of the conversation around how to fix the «fake news» problem.

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.

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

I actually tend to agree with Zuckerberg's post-election comment — which he since apologized for — that it was «crazy» to think that «Fake News» influenced the election; my view is that Fake News is a symptom of a far more serious problem: filter bubbles.

Google and Facebook's recent efforts show a new vigilance against fake news but also underline the difficulty of making dents in the problem.

Facebook is under fire for fake news and filter bubbles; they are a problem, but most of the proposed solutions are far worse.

Despite how it sounds, in today's age of fake news and fake accounts, websites that collect more identifiable information about their users are better - positioned to protect identities and even solve the widespread problems of spam bot and illegitimate user accounts.

As Lucinda Shen of Fortune recently pointed out, the new clampdown will have no impact on the platform's fake news problem (which is apparently bigger in the realm of cryptocurrency).

Your fascinating articles on knowledge referred to the prevailing problem of post-truth, fake news and antipathy towards «experts» (1 April,...

When fake news is accepted as just one of the alternate approaches, then there are serious problems to be addressed.»

In the video, Peele voices former president Barack Obama as he speaks on the importance of trusting media sources and researching all the information posted on the Internet as «fake news» has become a concerning problem.

«When teachers challenge students to figure out information for themselves (whether solving math problems or discerning real news from fake), students become actively engaged in school, their natural curiosity and sense of wonder are sparked, and they are set up for success, not only in school but in their communities and careers.»

That sort of agreement is not pushed in a democracy, it is pushed in a fake news misinformation environment where critics are said to deny something they don't deny, while being portrayed as corrupted when they are not, concerning a situation portrayed to be a problem under false premises, where zero rebuttal is permitted by those pushing this so - called agreement.

In a Facebook post Friday night, founder of the popular social network Mark Zuckerberg took time to outline the steps the company will take to tackle its «fake news» problem, which has been a hot topic in the wake of the election.

And while that looks like a tighter angle to approach the problem of malicious and politically divisive disinformation campaigns, it's also clear that a state like Russia has not stopped spreading fake news just because a particular target country's election is over.

This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, and Dieter give an overview of these products along with the topic of the week (or the month, or maybe the year): the problem of social media dealing with fake news articles that go viral.

Beyond a full range of events, grants, and fellowships for the Santa Clara University Community, the Center also serves professionals in fields from business to health care, from government to the social sector, providing innovative approaches to problems from fake news to privacy protection.

But they were very sophisticated, and it would be a mistake to assume that you can ever fully solve a problem like this, or think that they are going to give up and stop doing what they are doing.Rory Cellan Jones, BBC: You, back in November 2016 when you could say this crisis began, dismissed as crazy the idea that fake news could influence the election, and more recently here in the UK you've turned down an invitation to speak to our Parliamentarians in the House of Commons, just as we learn tonight that 1 million UK users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

Web giant Google has come under fire for allowing fake news and misinformation to spread on its services before, and now it seems that its subsidiary, video giant YouTube, is the newest arm of the company to have the same problem.

With recent accusations of fake news and the weaponization of information as a mechanism of steering public perceptions dominating headlines around the world, have you ever considered the reality that private dragnet surveillance via social media properties, ISPs, search engines, health sector organizations etc., heavily contribute to the problems of adversarial intervention and streamlined distribution of malware, ransomware, other forms of malicious payloads and propaganda?

Warner said Wednesday that the continued proliferation of fake news after events like the fatal Parkland, Florida, school shooting showed that the big social networks haven't solved what he acknowledges are tough problems, and ones he fears will only get worse as meddlers and others get more sophisticated.

This suggests that it is far more essential to address the fake news problem in the latter group of countries and less so in the former.

As Lucinda Shen of Fortune recently pointed out, the new clampdown will have no impact on the platform's fake news problem (which is apparently bigger in the realm of cryptocurrency).

The latest Facebook episode is part of a wider problem that it has been dealing with as it has tried to gain control over all of the fake news that has been filtering through the site, observed Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at Poynter.

He claims journalists misunderstand the complexity of attacking fake news, deride Facebook for thinking algorithms are neutral when the company knows they aren't, and encourages reporters to talk to engineers who actually deal with these problems and their consequences.

On this episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode's Senior Social Media Editor Kurt Wagner talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about how Facebook is trying to fix its «fake news» problem — by showing users less news and asking them to rank the credibility of media outlets.

The spreading of «fake news» has become a common occurrence and a real problem in today's media.

The fake - news problem, which has hit countries across the globe, has already led some governments to use the issue as an excuse to target sites of political rivals, or shut down social media sites altogether.

«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.

Social media has recently come under fire for its role in the spread of fake news, and various networks have tried to address the problem in different ways.

The unexpected victory of now - President Trump gave birth to a hotly contested theory that Facebook's fake news problem ultimately swayed the elections.

Fake news is just one of the issues Zuckerberg is pledging to work on in 2018 — and Facebook's latest acquisition could help the platform work on another problem area.

I actually tend to agree with Zuckerberg's post-election comment — which he since apologized for — that it was «crazy» to think that «Fake News» influenced the election; my view is that Fake News is a symptom of a far more serious problem: filter bubbles.