Sentences with phrase «spreading false information»

The internet is a critical tool for spreading false information — or disinformation in the parlance of information warfare — to either manipulate or demoralize a nation and its people.

In the largely unregulated world of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, fraudsters are getting rich by deliberately spreading false information to affect the price of their holdings using social media, scam news sites, and private chat apps.

The problem is, the camp's promotion of the candidate included spreading false information.

Offenses that can earn such a ranking include, but are not limited to, «spreading false information,» «causing trouble on a plane,» «using expired tickets,» «giving an insincere apology,» or even «parking a bicycle in a walkway.»

A new cybercrime law — that the government says is designed to prevent «ill - willed groups or individuals» from spreading false information — could criminalise individual input as well.

It's time to speak up to people spreading false information.

When someone is denied access, she tells her friends, who in turn tell their friends, spreading the false information that they are not able to receive emergency contraception from a pharmacy, Wilkinson said.

In 2001, he was convicted on criminal charges of «spreading false information intended to disturb the public order» for circulating a private paper that was critical of Tunisia's human rights practices during a regional meeting of human rights defenders in Morocco.

Borgia addressed her actions on Tuesday, saying «Well, I am saddened that Astorino has taken on President Trump's technique of spreading false information in order to divide people and to instill fear.

When you fail to produce this, you look like someone spreading false information for your own purposes.

What enjoyment do you receive out of spreading false information?

Facebook has apologised for threatening to impose controls on a Christian news satire website accused of spreading false information.

But if you're going to go around spreading false information about what the LDS Church does and does not believe, then you are the problem.

The National Development and Reform Commission, a powerful central body, said in March that it would extend train and flight travel restrictions for actions such as spreading false information about terrorism and using expired tickets.

The lawsuit seeks damages under South Dakota's defamation law, as well as a 1994 state law that allows businesses to sue anyone if they knowingly spread false information that a food product is unsafe.

Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of «highly coordinated campaigns» to deceive the American public, journalist Adrian Chen found when researching Russian troll factories in St. Petersburg in 2015.

This country became so intollerant of Muslims when the Repukes in this country decided that was the issue they would use to scare and bully everyone, to spread false information about.

When we spread false information on Facebook or elsewhere there is no one that benefits.

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.

Communication and propaganda too, can be used to spread false information or sway public opinion, as has been seen in Russia and Ukraine.

Tortorich exposes some of the popular fitness myths and how they're used to spread false information.

February 20, 2018 • It's known that Russian groups used Facebook and other social media platforms to spread false information during the 2016 election, but now Russian bots are doing the same after the Florida shooting.

Like all gossips, they work on few facts, spread false information and spin stories, which combine to destroy lives.

Also, please don't spread false information.

The students» activism has made them the target of «hoaxers» — deranged Internet users and grifters who spread false information that mass shooting incidents are manufactured by the government to seize guns and hand power to a secret global cabal working to install an authoritarian world government.

Earlier this week, Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Rudiantara, threatened to block Facebook if evidence emerged that Indonesian citizens» data had been unlawfully collected or if the platform is being used to spread false information ahead of a national election campaign season beginning in September.

As is often the case in such incidents, while journalists, law enforcement, victims, and their loved ones were scrambling to ascertain and disseminate accurate information in the ensuing panic, disreputable internet personalities swooped in and exploited the confusion to spread false information.

As of yesterday, Facebook's fact checking partners began reviewing suspicious photos and videos which can also spread false information.

Much of that content was intended to play upon hot - button political topics and spread false information to users.

The Binance team also encouraged McAfee not to spread false information and provided evidence that funds on the exchange are safe by publicly showing the cryptocurrency wallet addresses of the exchange.

arstechnica.com - Richard Pinedo On Friday, shortly after Department of Justice officials announced the indictment of 13 Russians accused of being involved in a multi-year effort to spread false information online surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign, the DOJ also announced the guilty plea of a California m...

Sidenote from Lisa: Google is a great tool, but please, PLEASE keep in mind how shockingly easy it is to spread false information about someone or slander them online.

They want our data and will spread any false information in order to achieve their goal.

Not exact matches

The section contains a list of the most popular articles that check the facts of current rumors or false information that are spreading throughout the Internet.

While Facebook has made the spread of information faster and easier, CEOs should not be surprised they need to take steps to protect themselves from false information in the media.

Kelly listed some of the accusations of Russian interference made by Mueller's office and other U.S. officials, including the spreading of false information online.

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 Press.

While journalists and academics propose Facebook make direct attempts at curbing the spread of false headlines, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg are concerned about the influence of the company, which has nearly two billion users.

«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.»

[We specifically demand that Gawker Media and its employees] immediately provide us with the name and all contact information for the unnamed «tipster» of the Story, so that we can serve that person with an immediate cease and desist letter to stop the spread of the false Story.

I wonder whether those who spread this false, misleading, and hateful information do so ignorantly or knowingly.

Some of us are day dreamers.let us allow the manager to look for a good players to boost the current quad for next season, stop confusing us with wrong information like some papers in the mole of metro spreading false news every day and now pls

There was a lot of rumors regarding the highly rated midfielder's future as many news outlets spread out false information about Ozil leaving the club either this January transfer window or in the summer as a free player after he ran out a contract.

Your half informed opinion is the reason false information is being spread and needs to be rebuked the way it is in this letter.

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).

Now you could prove that the information that I kicked a dog is false, so the news network is guilty of spreading a piece of false information.

But he said they exist for a darker purpose — to spread what he said is «malicious and false» information.

«The spreading of false information (through «sources» afraid to be identified) is the mark of cowards and a cover up for guilty parties to justify their horrific actions.

«Lago's opponents have reached a new low in their attempt to spread false and misleading information about Lago.

Not to oultine that Macron's law preventing false information to spread to the internet is a blow to free speech and independant journalism.