Sentences with phrase «targeted with fake news»
This is how American voters were targeted with fake news, misleading information and contradictory messages intended to influence how they voted — or if they voted at all.
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That's why the US embassy in Nairobi, itself a target of fake news, kickstarted the year - long project in Kenya, which will mix the online quiz with educational videos and public outreach.
Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.
The political profiles formed by gleaning Facebook user information would target them with intentionally fake news articles and advertisements.
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News that Cambridge Analytica, a UK data analysis and communications firm, may have manipulated voters in the 2016 US Presidential Election with carefully - targeted misinformation has placed intense scrutiny on Facebook as a distributor of propaganda and «Fake News».
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.
And then advertise or target them with blogs or websites or various — what everyone now calls fake news — so that they start seeing all of these ideas, or all of these stories around them in their digital environment.
Stock up on the popcorn — the currently suspended CEO of the firm at the center of a data handling and political ad - targeting storm currently embroiling Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, has been recalled by a UK parliamentary committee that's running a probe into the impact of fake news because it's unhappy with the quality of his prior answers.
Another Buzzfeed investigation this fall found that a group of young Macedonian publishers were running huge networks of popular Facebook pages filled with fake conservative news, targeted at Trump supporters in the US on websites such as TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, and USADailyPolitics.com.