Sentences with phrase «spread of hoax»

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

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Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

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.

If a mass HOAX were to instantly spread through social media channels regarding a false NFL stadium evacuation, his company would be a major contributor in the decentralized relaying of dangerous information — likely inducing widespread panic.

The Bali provincial administration has accused countries that have destinations similar to Bali of spreading hoaxes about the impact of the volcanic activity at Mount Agung in trying benefit from recent disruption.

Could this be a sign that NOAA's scientists were under the thumb of an authoritarian Obama administration bent on spreading the climate change hoax?

As a clearly intended consequence of the organized campaigns of disinformation, this «climate science is a hoax» propaganda has spread widely in the political arena.

We then spread the word, warning others of the hoax.

For years, YouTube has been plagued with videos that spread hoaxes, hateful speech, and all manner of misinformation.

A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.

On 30 March 2018, the hoax - spreading, self - described conservative blog FellowshipoftheMinds.com posted a story reporting that organizers of the «March for Our Lives» rally in Washington, D.C., had applied for march permits months before the 14 February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Hoaxes and disinformation are spreading in the aftermath of a shooting at YouTube's offices in San Bruno, California.