Sentences with phrase «spreading company news»

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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 social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies created systems where fake news stories spread more easily than factual reports.

No matter how often radical periodicals denounced fake news published by their competitors, they found it difficult to suppress false information spread by powerful newswire companies like Hearst's International News Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated Prnews published by their competitors, they found it difficult to suppress false information spread by powerful newswire companies like Hearst's International News Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated PrNews Service, the United Press Associations and the Associated Press.

The company has been trying to clamp down on misinformation and false news after admitting last year that Russian agents had used it to spread divisive and polarizing messages.

Now, the company is reportedly launching an internal probe of potential conservative bias and it will be led by a man who's spread fake news that just won't die.

The company has admitted that users gamed its News Feed algorithm to try and spread misinformation during the election, and also that Facebook sold more than $ 100,000 worth of ads to Russian - controlled accounts.

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.

Besides the sponsorship, Google's most visible role in the proceedings fell to Elliot Schrage, the company's VP for Global Communications, whose Thursday afternoon presentation made a little news here, there and elsewhere, particularly his comments about the Viacom / YouTube lawsuit and the ease with which false information can spread through the «net (his defense of Google China got less notice).

Kennedy, an environmental activist and lawyer who was most recently in the news for speaking out against vaccination requirements, has even hailed AbTech's deal with Nassau as a national model that he would help spread, and went on the Fox Business channel to promote the company last year.

And to make sure that good news gets spread, the first follow - up action to the STRATA report will be the publication of a brochure that highlights best practises in a number of such companies.

Throw in a 24 - hour news cycle, difficult - to - understand studies, and media companies scramble for the latest viral hit, and it's no surprise that misinformation spreads like wildfire.

Love Your Melon is such a great company, glad to hear more people spreading the news about it!!

The Tribune though can be considered to have a wider reach unlike its Philadelphian counterpart since the news paper company has a number of other newspapers and television stations that are spread all across the US.

When the news spread to insurance companies — another industry that assesses the risk of millions of clients — a similar rationale was applied.

For a portfolio that holds a number of companies spread across different industries and geographies, the underlying value varies very little day - to - day, no matter what the news might be.

As news spread about the needs of pets impacted first by Hurricane Harvey, the PLC was flooded with offers from other companies wanting to help with the efforts around Irma.

Nintendo spread the news this morning via a Nintendo Direct event, one of the series of virtual press conferences that have become the company's primary conduit for delivering info to its fans.

A group of Facebook architects harshly criticized the company for its involvement in the spread of fake news and voiced their concern that the company has «created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»

The news: When IKEA launches its massive glossy 2010 catalog next week, an in - house ad spread nestled at the back also announces the company's latest effort at either massive PR or a new era in showcasing

Irish Legal News reporter Kevin Burns meets former lawyer Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of Canadian legal tech company Kira Systems, who is in Dublin to meet Irish clients and spread the word that Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity and not a threat — that it should be embraced and not dreaded.

In separate but related news, Facebook is making its data settings and privacy tools «easier to find», with all those settings now accessible from a single place rather than «spread across nearly 20 different screens» (an existing state of affairs that tells its own story about the company's past approach).

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.

The social network was one of the top tools used by Russians to spread false news, and the company's executives have struggled to explain what happened and how they would prevent foreign interference in the future.

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.

Just days after news spread of an unofficial third party PS4 - to - PC streaming app named «Remote Play PC», Sony has confirmed the company is working on its own app.

The company admitted that during the US election season malicious actors created fake personas to spread fake news on the 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.

«The objective of the project is to spread the use of new technologies in this sector through a user - friendly interface and an offer of accessible high value - added services,» says the company in a news release.

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