Sentences with phrase «topic of fake news»

Also on hand was Sven Recker, whose book Fake Metal Jacket is on the timely topic of fake news.

The skills students acquire while studying the topic of fake news empower them to critically assess media.

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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.

In 2016, for instance, the company replaced the human editors of its Trending Topics module with robots — and fake news promptly began trending.

[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.]

The New York State Writers Institute's fall schedule will include everything from the rap artist and actress known as Awkwafina to the multi-day symposium «Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World,» featuring top names in the news media discussing topics such as the rise of «fake news» and cybersecurity.

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A good place to start engaging students on the topic of «fake news» is a study published by the Stanford History Education Group.The study confirmed that students are generally weak evaluators of news and other information they see online.

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

The majority of the artists deal directly with the political topics of migration, fake news, discrimination and bureaucracy, while others engage with the potential presented to you when using language in alternative ways.

In a field known for its open approach to free speech topics, how can leaders in the visual arts — museum directors, curators, artists and others — face up to the mounting threats of ultraconservatism and «fake news» as they relate to everyday citizens?

John Oliver dives into the topic on Last Week Tonight, compiling 25 years of news stories about how terrible these companies are and proposing a few fake, awful companies that he hopes will be confused with Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian.

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.

To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location.

This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, and Dieter give an overview of these products along with the topic of the week (or the month, or maybe the year): the problem of social media dealing with fake news articles that go viral.

But as Facebook seeks to fight the scourge of fake news without necessarily becoming the arbiter of truth itself, its best bet may be to expose a range of opinions about a topic and hope people understand the most outlandish (and viral) takes might not be worth reading.

Last year, it was revealed that agents likely operating out of Russia used Facebook to share over 80,000 ads containing fake news around sensitive topics like race and immigration.

A key topic of discussion was the issue of fake news; an issue that countries across Europe are grappling with.

This year we saw a wide range of activities taking place from hosting workshops to cart - wheels, topics being addressed across the country include image - sharing, screen - time, social media use, fake news, net neutrality, cyberbullying and much more.