Sentences with phrase «what with the fake news»

Social media has been in a bit of a bind recently, what with the fake news stories and no one wanting to buy Twitter.

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With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

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 Fenews: 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 FeNews Feeds.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald and others have said this is one of the problems with Facebook deciding what «fake news» is.

The media unleashed a wave of fury — similar to what we're hearing now with respects to the problems of fake news and hidden influence.

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

Then with TV it matters what your candidate looks like... Anybody can fake it on TV: all the Joe Trippis and Alastair Campbells get really good at making sure our guy looks great for the eight seconds that are actually going on the news.

Left - wing advocacy group Media Matters for America has been quietly working with social media giant Facebook to combat what the group describes as «propaganda» and «fake news,» internal documents reveal.

So I think again that with the proliferation and democratization of technology and information, information, especially in these world of fake news and journalism under fire and truth seemingly being malleable, I think it's so important to have people like RBSS who are fighting for the truth and are exposing the truth and that's what we have to do.

In our digital world, where anyone with a little know - how can post unverified stories online and frame them as fact, when solid web design can make an advertisement seem like an article, and the question of what is and what is not «fake news» seems to come up on a daily basis, how do young people — «digital natives» — vet all the information in front of them?

I spoke with my students about Mary Beth Hertz's Edutopia post «Battling Fake News in the Classroom,» and I sensed that many of my students, while skilled at what Hertz fittingly calls «crap detection,» were still deeply troubled by what they characterized as a growing public aversion to the truth.

There are several key questions students can ask when presented with any new piece of information that can help identify what is or isn't fake news:

The new exhibition revisits the original concept with contemporary photographers considering what the African American experience looks like today, after the historic presidency of Barack Obama and in the age of Black Lives Matter, alternative facts and supposed «fake» news.

«In the age of a superabundance of information, what differentiates «real» (authoritative) information from «fake news,» and how one can be interchanged with the other as an «equal» source of authority?»

It hasn't been the best year for intellectually honest commentary — what with partisan media, clickbait, and outright «fake» news sources (which we've probably already heard too much about).

In a statement, the Guild said that the decision on what was «fake news» and what wasn't could not be left to governments since the government was often charged with spreading fake news itself.

This ruling sounds very similar to what happened with South Korea a few weeks, which turned out to be 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.

In a wide - ranging interview on Vox's The Ezra Klein Show podcast, Zuckerberg discussed election interference, the handling of user data and privacy, the proliferation of fake news, and what to do when your company — with more than 2 billion users — reaches a size and scale where the consequences for failure have a massive impact.

The suppression software has been contentious within Facebook, which is separately grappling with what should or should not be shown to its users after the American presidential election's unexpected outcome spurred questions over fake news on the social network.

Not surprisingly, given the intense focus on it of late by politicians and also other tech companies, Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's struggle with what he called «fake news» and «filter bubbles,» defending social media for providing «more diverse viewpoints than traditional media ever has.»

On a recent episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode, Brian Stelter, the senior media correspondent at CNN, stopped in to try to answer the question, «What can we do about «fake news?

Catalyzed by the fake news scandals surrounding the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg first laid the groundwork with his 6,000 - word community letter on «Building Community,» which focused on what Facebook could do to help.

«But I think there's a difference between actually representing what your services are and how they can help people, versus being really clandestine and trying to sway people with fake news.»

Outside of traditional spammers and state - sponsored actors, the third and what Facebook deems is the most challenging category of the so - called «fake news» to deal with are real media outlets with an inherent political bias.