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Prior to the Cambridge Analytica story breaking, Facebook has been criticized for allowing the spread of fake news on its platform.

In the past, Stamos has attempted to shift the blame for the spread of fake news on Facebook to the algorithm used by the company.

Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos has taken to the digital airwaves (read Twitter) to try and counter the assumption that the social media giant is sitting on its hands when it comes to preventing the spread of fake news on its channels.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this month he would overhaul domestic media legislation to fight the spread of fake news on social media, which he said was a threat to liberal democracies.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

Are social media sites like Facebook and YouTube currently doing enough or not doing enough to stop the spread of fake news on their sites?

Even though social media may not be the principal culprit in spreading fake news, fully 69 % of Americans say that these sites are not doing enough to stop the spread of fake news on their platforms.

Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

And during his remarks he talked about the spread of fake news on social networks and how that could weaken democracy.

Facebook had also failed to prevent the spread of fake news on its service in prelude to the 2016 presidential elections.

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By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

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 cross-party group spent more than an hour attacking YouTube and Google for its role in spreading fake news, contributing to the decline of journalism, and on its spending on removing abusive or misleading content.

«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.»

Manny Mogato, a journalist with Reuters in the Philippines and this year's winner of the McLuhan Fellowship, will be presenting on the spread of fake news in the Philippines and how this undermines the news media's role.

Washington, DC, March 21, 2018 — Barraged by accusations of spreading divisive fake news and amid new allegations that it handed over personal information on up to 50 million users without their consent, Facebook is losing the faith of the American people, according to a new Digital Citizens Alliance survey.

After vowing to crack down on the spread of «fake news,» social networks are facing a new deluge of misinformation in the wake of last week's shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead, with some calling the young survivors actors and pawns.

Companies like Facebook and Google have had an outsize effect on political discourse because of the ways their algorithms help to promote and spread fake news and propaganda.

A solution the pope proposes for combating fake news on an individual basis: Listen to diverse sources instead of engaging with homogenous news environments: «Praiseworthy efforts are being made to create educational programs aimed at helping people to interpret and assess information provided by the media, and teaching them to take an active part in unmasking falsehoods, rather than unwittingly contributing to the spread of disinformation.»

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.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

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 posts on Twitter shows that fake news spreads significantly more than the truth on social media.

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Fake news, however, has spread on social media with the aim of creating panic on the island, chairman of the Bali office of the Association of Indonesian Tour and Travel Agencies, I Ketut Ardana, said.

This comes after there have been several complaints of misinformation and fake news being spread on Facebook and WhatsApp in the lead up to Kenya's Presidential elections set to take place on 8 August 2017.

Consider that most fake news shared on Facebook may have been disseminated by users, not publishers; yet, the newsfeed was censored in response to the spread of fake news [6].

We need to better understand the threat of bad actors who may use access to data to help them spread fake news or propaganda on social platforms.

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.

In the aftermath of a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school on 14 February 2018, a fake screenshot of a Buzzfeed News story arguing that white people should have their guns taken away spread online.

In essence, the corporation is being accused of manipulating the results of that election, especially by harvesting protected personal data from Facebook and by making targeted posts on this and other social media platforms, including with the aim of discrediting other candidates and spreading fake news.

Several tech companies, including Twitter and Google, have faced criticism for failing to curb the spread of «fake news» on its platforms, and allowing Russian - backed trolls to buy ads to spread misinformation on their platforms.

Facebook and Twitter both revealed on Friday more about how they plan to deal with the spread of fake news and propaganda on their services.

Facebook has sought to placate concerns about how fake news can spread on its platform by introducing various tools and processes intended to add more context around news content and / or try to limit the spread of fake news by hampering malicious actors.

An inalienable right for publishers to get paid whenever anybody links to their content, on social media or elsewhere, creates a perverse incentive structure: From the perspective of the social network, spreading fake news in the form of sponsored posts makes them money, whereas their users sharing legitimate news articles costs them money.

As technology firms continue to try to bolster their defenses against fake news, YouTube reportedly plans to introduce information from Wikipedia articles to combat the spread of conspiracy theory videos on the platform.

To that end, Facebook offers guidelines on the kind of content publishers should and shouldn't post, although the social media giant's efforts to shake up the News Feed can sometimes inadvertently lead to a further spread of fake nNews Feed can sometimes inadvertently lead to a further spread of fake newsnews.

The official Twitter account has tweeted out a tease of the event, where it looks like the primary focus will be talking about social media's role in spreading fake news, and Russia's influence on the 2016 election.

The fears regarding Facebook's impact on democracy are likely due in part to the spread of fake news stories that appeared on Facebook during the U.S. 2016 presidential elections.

Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.

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A series of steps taken to remove terrorist propaganda more quickly, and tamp down on the spread of fake news, have produced some encouraging results.