Sentences with phrase «real fake news»

In these challenging times, here is your checklist for spotting the real fake news

We all know that, yes, there's been a lot of real fake news recently; thankfully, it didn't influence the election.

Not exact matches

The fact that we're consuming fake news in our Facebook feeds, Twitter streams and via Google's news app alongside real journalism suggests that our realities are poorly edited versions of themselves.

«Fake news» is a real phenomenon.

He has twisted the all - too - real phenomena of «fake news» into an attack on journalists struggling to discern truth.

We even remember funny, fake news better than the real, straight - faced kind.

The social media site on Wednesday announced the Facebook Journalism Project, a concerted effort to help media organizations benefit from Facebook @facebook (fb) and to spitball ideas to help its users discern between fake and real news.

Craig has already shown that he can take a really global view of the fake news story, and bring some real analytical rigor to it.»

Fake news or real news?

We live in a time when fake news has become a real problem.

The president himself has been a longtime supporter of conspiracy theories often espoused by Alex Jones on InfoWars, a far - right website that deliberately spreads propaganda and disinformation masked as real news, or as the president would actually call it, fake news.

Like most fake news stories, it wasn't based on any real events of facts, but is a work of complete fiction meant to fool readers in order to generate clicks and social media shares.

In case there were still any doubts about how serious this whole fake news trend has gotten, this weekend, it sparked threats of a real nuclear war.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

then we can have real news for a while, followed by real practices, which will lead to real / fake games in August.

L. Collins was widely projected to go top 10 in the mocks — in real life, no team was willing to even gamble a 7th on him due to fake news that emerged just days before the draft.

Some of these «fake» transfer news ended up being real... I remember a certain Ozil.

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Complete with fake «first hand accounts», news footage and video footage, it spread pretty far before it died out, and during a time when anti-police sentiment was fuelling real violence on the streets.

Hours after Trump dismissed reports that his campaign associates were being scrutinized for colluding with Russia as «fake news,» FBI Director James Comey confirmed the investigation is real.

Knowing that many Ghanaians have difficulty distinguishing sponsored stories from real news, they have sponsored and sponsoring these online publishers to plant fake news in the public domain including fake stories about the current NDC internal matters.

«Pope backs Trump», «Hillary sold weapons to ISIS», «FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead» - these fake headlines all went viral on Facebook in the run up to the election, gaining such high engagement that BuzzFeed published an analysis on how they had outperformed real news on Facebook.

He discussed how to discern real news from fake, the challenges for journalists digging for the truth amid the chaos of the Trump administration and the impact of social media platforms as «sources» of news.

The problem is that this supposedly fake news keeps having very real consequences.

And on Twitter, an analysis by University of Southern California computer scientists found that nearly 20 percent of election - related tweets came from bots, computer programs posing as real people and often spouting biased or fake news.

Are we doomed, then, to repeat fake news until it becomes real in our minds?

Overall, fake news was about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real news.

Overall, these data show, fake news was about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than was real news.

«Homeland is holding up a funhouse mirror to real - world scandals about fake news, Russian collusion, and information warfare, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about this season is how deftly it allows several political viewpoints to have a place in its narrative.»

By now you've probably heard that Donald Trump addressed a gathering of thousands of young Boy Scouts and ranted at them about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, the «fake news» media, the size of his electoral victory, and cocktail parties with real estate developers.

Forty - seven years after The Washington Post published the so - called Pentagon Papers, there is another paranoid bully in the White House, press freedom is under real threat and the US capital is awash with lies, slander and allegations of «fake news».

Civics can also teach students «how to get and interpret good information about what's going on in the world,» a skill especially important in an era where claims of fake news (and «real» fake news) surround us.

On an episode of Radiolab recorded earlier this year, host Simon Adler leads us down a fascinating and somewhat terrifying path into the future of fake news, where videos of real people — like a U.S. president — can be made to say fake things.

«Every elementary teacher, history teacher, science teacher, and English teacher should engage learners in activities in which they distinguish between real and fake news, reputable social media posts and disreputable ones, credible author credentials and false ones, hard news or op - eds,» writes Todd Finley (@finleyt) in Greenville, North Carolina.

Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) says firstly that fake news lessons should be «lecture - based,» secondly using «irrelevant examples that are easy to detect as fake,» and thirdly using «old stories that have so many search results that it doesn't represent the real world.»

Literate citizens can discern between real and fake news and question sources.

«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.»

In addition, most educators rely on interactive experiences and real - world examples to guide students through ways to spot fake news.

They help students identify reliable, trustworthy sources, discern bias, distinguish between real and fake news, and learn how to perform research.

In an era of «fake news,» without learning substance and real facts about the world, students will not have the knowledge needed to determine if the news they read or hear is truly factually based or just false and misleading.

This is an age where government speaks of alternative facts and fake news... how will these students ever learn to distinguish between real and fake?

Set some two years after When Will There Be Good News, Jackson is wandering around England, looking for his fake wife, Tessa, and researching the real parents of a New Zealand adoptee, Hope McMaster.

Microsoft has stated that the recent news about the Office for iPad app has no real foundation, with the image being nothing more than a fake.

The story begins with the news that, almost ten years after the crime, the fake Picasso they replaced the real one with is in danger of being discovered.

In a day and age when we are facing the potential rollback of net neutrality, you can not put a price tag on the individuals in a student's life who teach them the skills to distinguish between Fake news and real news.»

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

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I can say that news on TV and Movies can really mess your mind since they show real fotage or very good quality fake horror:) since movies look so realistic...

Veteran journalist Maggie Farley created the game Factitious with game designer Bob Hone at American University to test users» abilities to spot the fake news among the real stories.