Sentences with phrase «promoting false stories»

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Facebook has also struggled recently with keeping its news feed free of misleading or false stories, including the kinds of discourse that NimbleAmerica seems intended to promote.

The Kano based journalist advised Punch to ensure they get their facts right before promoting false and inaccurate stories.

In early November several news outlets revealed that a group of Macedonian teenagers had fooled Facebook's News Feed algorithm into promoting blatantly false stories that appealed to right - wing voters during the U.S. election.

Thousands of false stories made headlines over the last 40 years almost all promoted by Suzuki.

Some traditional media outlets responsibly reported the story, beginning with the British newspaper The Guardian; but it certainly hasn't received the same attention given to the earlier false claim that the science of climate change has been fabricated — a story that itself received far more attention when it initially broke than when it was completely and thoroughly (pdf) and beyond all doubt debunked as not only systemic lies, but lies promoted through what appears to have been criminal activity.