Sentences with phrase «stories are fake»

Fake stories are fake stories, no matter what anyone says.

All the stories are fake, but if you didn't know that, you could almost believe they were true... Sad, but true.

@Primewonk The story is a fake?

Oh wait I already own a pro and this story is fake.

Shut up Tristan your story was fake and stupid

Prosecutors, however, presented evidence that showed the crime scene and story was fake, and used forensically tested Apple Watch data to illustrate the time and style of attack.

The standards also help clarify if the story is news or opinion, as well as who owns the news site publishing the story, and other information that can help a reader understand whether the story is fake news or based on authentic, factual journalism.

For these reasons, there were suspicions that the story was fake.

Not exact matches

The history is important, as a problematic front - page story in The New York Times, How GOP Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science, illustrates.

Although Facebook (fb) has downplayed the prevalence of fake news on its service, it's been steadily creating initiatives and debuting new technology to curtail bogus news stories.

Rather than just being «fake news,» many of the most - shared stories in this right - wing ecosystem «can more accurately be understood as disinformation,» the study says.

However, before entrepreneurs in the tech space try to figure out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another of the many PR fakes Apple has pulled over the years.

Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

After initially dismissing the issue of fake news and its role in distributing it, Facebook recently started working with third - party fact - checking groups and is now flagging stories that have been called into question or whose accuracy has been disputed.

Facebook is working with fact - checking companies to highlight questionable stories as «disputed» and letting users mark posts as «fake news,» while Twitter has changed its default profile image from an egg to a human head silhouette, partly to reduce trolling, it said Friday in a blog post.

It reiterated in a follow - up tweet that its servers being hacked is a «fake new (sic) story.»

«You know, personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,» he told Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.»

In particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favor.

Even if Facebook does want to stamp out fake news, it has to rely on human beings to flag those stories as hoaxes.

But if a fake story reinforces your views about a political issue, are you likely to flag it as fake, or simply share it and move on?

And fake news stories are likely to be just as engaging, if not more so, as true ones.

Local news anchors are required to read a script that claims the national media is publishing «fake» stories.

Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake is even on this month's cover story on productivity.

On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News Feeds.

Users can still share a fake article, but only if they click through a warning that the story is disputed.

For the record, the stories we are referencing in this campaign are the unsubstantiated ones (i.e. fake / false) like «Pope Endorses Trump» which move quickly across social media and result in an ill - informed public,» reads the memo.

Most notably, Facebook is engaging its biggest asset — not its algorithms, but its users — to get the 1.8 billion people who use the platform to identify and call out fake stories.

«Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

Within hours of the announcement on Thursday — which involves making it easier for users to flag fakes, as well as alerting readers when the accuracy of a story has been called into question — conservative outlets were already dismissing the move as a conspiracy of left - leaning partisans, designed to smother alternative sources and protect existing «gatekeepers.»

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.

They had good reason: They sought to challenge the growing numbers of powerful newspapers that were concocting fake stories to either sell papers or advance the interests of their corporate benefactors.

The company has taken a number of steps to try to stamp out fake news, including setting up a process whereby it takes fact - checking and verification efforts from third - party outlets like Politifact and Snopes, and shows users when a particular story is being questioned or has been debunked.

«Fake news has been a really extraordinary story, and it turns out it's the kind of story Craig has been kind of preparing for for some time — maybe his whole life,» Smith said.

Soon after The Hill published a story about the deal earlier in October, Trump latched onto it, tweeting that the «Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

Before my arrival, a competitor leaked a fake story that we were launching «Virgin Tacos» there.

Populist William Jennings Bryan cried fake news when misleading stories went out over the AP wire claiming that Bryan was supporting Teddy Roosevelt for a third term.

The stories they eventually ran were anti-labor, including one fake claiming that miners had ambushed company guards, which justified sending in the troops to suppress them.

The thread was written as a fake news story about Tesla going bankrupt, including a reference to Musk being «passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by «Teslaquilla» bottles.»

As Lewis noted on Monday after his story was publicized, some publishers» articles on the story came emblazoned with fake ads — online publishers tend to just put empty boxes on their sites that are filled by ad networks, with the publisher getting a cut.

They've included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of «fake news,» a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

When a recording of Green Leader Elizabeth May seeming to say Canadians are «stupid» popped up on the web, The Hook broke the story that the Greens were calling the tape a fake and threatening to sue a blogger and others over it.

First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any of this; while the company denies this report in Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2

Between «fake news,» Oscar mix - ups, and an adorably blundered BBC interview, it was a roller coaster of entertainment (at least that's what many of us are choosing to remember over the countless negative stories).

«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the social impact of technology, said of a recent post on Facebook.

A White House spokesperson said Trump denied having an affair with McDougal: «This is an old story that is just more fake news.

Yet the US involvement was incongruous with president Trump's own stances, who questioned former president Barack Obama's birthplace for years without evidence, threw doubt on the accuracy of stories in US media outlets, and even doled out «fake news awards» in January to reputable news companies including the New York Times and Washington Post.

Large majorities of the American public believe that traditional media outlets engage in reporting fake news and that outside sources are actively trying to plant fake stories in the mainstream media.

Nearly 9 - in - 10 Americans (87 %) believe that outside groups are trying to plant fake news stories on social media sites like Facebook and YouTube.

[Note: the interviews for this poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while not directly a «fake news» issue, is related to the topic.]