Sentences with phrase «time of fake news»

In our time of fake news and misinformation, sales of George Orwell's classic book have apparently rocketed.

In a time of fake news, academic librarians are teaching college students how to evaluate online sources and identify valid and reliable data.

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However, the Financial Times reported that the Justice Department's primary demand is for the sale of CNN, a leading cable news network that has frequently drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who refers to the network and its journalists as «fake news» on a regular basis.

However, the Financial Times reported that the government has fresh concerns caused by Fox being named in a U.S. lawsuit filed last week that alleges it disseminated «fake news» on the murder of Seth Rich, an aide to the Democratic Party.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

«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.

And the way that this has blurred the line is that Trump is not criticizing them and calling them «fake news» for incorrect reporting most of the time, it's just critical reporting.

And so the clear aspect of «fake news» that Trump sees is any time they say something Trump doesn't like it's «fake.»

«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.

The campaign followed the same pattern of fake news reports and videos, this time under the hashtag #EbolaInAtlanta, which briefly trended in Atlanta.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

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.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

It is an irony of our times that those who most frequently denounce «fake news» seem to most frequently purvey it.

At the same time, politicians are growing frustrated with the apparent reluctance of social media firms to take action to combat fake news.

All of this also comes at a time when Facebook is still recovering from the effects of widespread fake news and Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections through their platform.

Churches across the country have been encouraged to set aside time in their services to pray for journalists, amid the growing phenomena of so - called fake news.

But with the ever expanding growth of the internet it was just a matter of time before fake news publications caught up with those dedicated to delivering facts.

The Pope said the first fake news dated from the Biblical beginning of time, when Eve was tempted to take an apple from the Garden of Eden based on disinformation from the serpent.

Craft beer is a fascinating subject, but in the era of «Fake News» and viral videos, it's time we hold ourselves as beer geeks to a higher standard.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

I do nt believe in all the fake news coming out of emirate stadium, but I believe, I hope seeing is believing cause this is not the first time we heard about the speculations.

Some yrs ago wenger sold Vanpersie, nasri n oda bcuz d were in d last yr of their contract couple wit our financial instability this time around he spoken he won't sell Sanchez cuz we nid him in oda to win something but fans won't allow us to rest wit fake news.

They remind us of a simpler time, when there were good guys in the West, bad guys in the East, and the moral chaos of September 11th, fake news and the financial crisis were years in the future.

Fake news was invented thousands of years go, in ancient times.

De Blasio dismissed the surge of aggressive desnudas and other costumed characters in Times Square as fake news, right before his own police commissioner admitted that cops are issuing more summonses to the scofflaw panhandlers.

Damian Collins, the chairman of the Commons inquiry into fake news, accused Facebook of «misleading» the committee previously, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process».

Bader Ginsburg praised the media at a time when the Trump administration has accused reporters of being dishonest and delivering «fake news.»

The post also went on to list 10 Trump administration's major successes, adding «while the media spent 90 per cent of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results».

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Rensselaer County Executive candidate Steve McLaughlin, who has been a subject of tough reporting by the Times Union, blasted the paper as a «rag» and «fake news» and pledged to never talk to the paper if elected.

The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.

Dr Newman said in a time when genuine science is struggling to be heard above fake news and alternate facts, researchers need to consider not only the content of their messages, but features of the delivery.

The Fourth Estate, Season 1: In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.&rtimes when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.&rTimes in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.&rtimes when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.&rTimes in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

And in the case of The Post, I can think of no movie that is more important for a time when the assault on freedom of the press and journalistic integrity is being drilled into people's heads with the attack phrase «fake news.»

On Episode 5, Ross and Kyle weigh their picks for the best movies of the year against the Oscar nominees, then talk about that time Paul Newman made a movie about fake news called Absence of Malice, because he was angry with the New York Post for reporting he was only 5 ′ 8 ″.

I suppose that in this age of fake news it was just a matter of time before we'd be wrestling with whether or not a picture passing itself off as factual might actually be phony.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, where news media was deemed the «the enemy of the people,» and The New York Times directly attacked and labeled as «fake news,» FLAG began developing an exhibition examining how seminal artists, such as Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Lorraine O'Grady, Fred Tomaselli, and others, who have used and been inspired by this newspaper in their practice.

«In an era of fake news,» she explains, «mistaking false information for truth is a topic whose time has come.»

Jonathan T.D. Neil considers whether Bruno Latour can help with fake news; J.J. Charlesworth gets tired and emotional about emotionalism in art and politics; Maria Lind reports on the state of art - making in a tense and anxious Egypt; Christian Viveros - Fauné considers the legacy of art interventionists General Idea; and, thinking about dead language, Heather Phillipson wants to wake up in a time and place that's not yet written

Opening: «The Times» at FLAG Art Foundation Could Robert Gober have been the original creator of fake news?

In 2017, at a moment when the subject of truth and fake news came to the forefront of national discourse, the artist tweaked one of these adjusted - to - fit works in reaction to today's shifted reality by adding a twisting effect to make Pollyanna (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times).

Climate scientists aren't the chief practitioners of fake news, CNN and the NY times are.

In a Facebook post Friday night, founder of the popular social network Mark Zuckerberg took time to outline the steps the company will take to tackle its «fake news» problem, which has been a hot topic in the wake of the election.

«My own view is that the move is more of a copout than a solution on hate speech and truly fake news,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

And the head of a British parliamentary inquiry into fake news called on Facebook to testify before his panel again, this time with Zuckerberg.

The combination of a «whistleblower» with pink hair, a huge botched job by FB, quite clever coordination with the New York Times which has a very strong incentive to blame Facebook for Trump (rather than their own coverage of Hillary's emails and so on, which dwarfed all «fake news» social media in impact — cf. physicist Duncan Watts for detail), and the desire of many established players to screw Silicon Valley tech companies gave the story more legs than her previous ones.