Sentences with phrase «with hoax»

A YouTube staffer had his Twitter account hacked and filled with hoax posts soon after he started tweeting about the active shooting unfolding at the company's California headquarters.

A senior Sony executive was also targeted with a hoax bomb threat that caused the flight on which he was travelling to be diverted.

A very short redemption story in Michigan: Two tea - party - backed former lawmakers who had an affair, and then attempted to cover it up with a hoax letter about a male prostitute, are hoping for a second chance in the Legislature.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

And that's the problem with hoaxes.

The four - time host of the Tony Awards continues to expand his repertoire with this fanciful, possibly ill - conceived musical biopic, taking on the role of P.T. Barnum, the 19th - century promoter whose name is synonymous with hoaxes and cynical business practices.

Not exact matches

Apart from maintaining that global warming is a Chinese hoax, Trump has shown no engagement with electric cars, sustainable energy, or space exploration.

Web site includes Virus Information Center with virus encyclopedia (including «Top 5» current threats), hoax updates, tips, and other resources.

Our goal is to reduce these hoaxes just like we fight other scams on our platform, but I want us to be especially careful about never being arbiters of truth ourselves — which is why we're working with third - party fact - checkers.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as «fake news,» a «hoax» and a «witch hunt.»

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.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

The company said it would work with third - party organizations to promote «news literacy» and help users decide which sources are trustworthy and would also continue to work on curbing hoaxes.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

We have in place strict guidelines for our trending topic reviewers as they audit topics surfaced algorithmically: reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources....

The CFTC alleges that the company and its employees created an elaborate hoax, paying customers with funds obtained from other customers — the classic indicators of a Ponzi scheme.

However with Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate change agreement, referring to climate change as a «hoax» and pledging to return the U.S. coal industry to its glory days, the White House and the Canadian government are pretty far apart on many environmental issues.

A police officer has been removed from road patrol while he's being investigated in connection with Facebook posts that suggested the Parkland school massacre could be a hoax, police said Monday.

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

To accuse them of committing a hoax with no supporting evidence is immoral.

To James, who seems to think he's scored some kind of point with allegations about the Piltdown Man and falsified research, who exactly do you think found out that those were hoaxes and cheatings?

Socarides stated that the decision of the APA was the hoax of the century.did the vast majority of phycs agree with the APA decision?

i would say the logical response to dealing with «super-natural» phenomenon would be to: 1) eliminate the possibility that it's a hoax.

He even firmly believed and defended the later - revealed hoax from the girls in England who faked a garden picture with fairies in 1917 (The Cottingley Fairies).

Vidal - Naquet remarks (with specific reference to Butz's Hoax of the Twentieth Centurythough with application to denial literature in general) that it is «possible, of course, even easy» to refute them, «assuming one knew the archives, but it would be long and tedious... [and] to demolish a discourse takes time and space.

For people to defile it with homosexuality or any of the other 200 + perverted attractions, and claim the «born that way» hoax is just despicable.

To recognize this potential recurrence it is not necessary to see uniformed stormtroopers in the streets; it is not necessary to acquaint oneself with the republication of old hate literature, with the brand - new growing literature and the publicity given to the «Great Hoax» theme.

Grey skies, kids with the flu, still not entirely sure the Nobel thing isn't some kind of Facebook hoax.

Certain Progressive historians prepared the intellectual ground for this transition, arguing with varying intensity (and inaccuracy) that Mr. Madison's Constitution was, in effect, an elaborate hoax, an instrument whose nominal republican sentiments masked a deeper, sinister intent to protect the political and economic power of the ruling classes.

It's hard to keep track of which of these are real and which were proved to be hoaxes like Piltdown Man and others with false claims like Lucy.

Harpur (and Kuhn) seem to reject Christianity as a hoax and seek to replace it with gnostism or early egyptian mystery religion.

Historically and archaeologically, it has been proven by prominent educated professors that Mr. Smith was a hoax creator with places, people and things that just did not exist.

My guess is that it's another hoax, like the Purple Naga or the guy from Taiwan with the Chilli Museum.

Manti fell for the hoax and eventually discovered it, but by then was too embarrassed that he had fallen for a hoax and was in too deep, and so he just continued on with it.

The transfer window is not yet open and the fans are going crazy already about signings, Fans read too much into these hoax stories from the press, i mean come on, how many players have been linked with Arsenal during the lat few weeks?

We generally welcome efforts to dispel e-mail hoaxes about microwaving with plastics, but Julie Deardorff's recent column («Internet hoax on plastic does leak some truth,» Q, June 11) only adds to the confusion.

But he took issue with Labour's Emily Thornberry who contended that that Trump's election as U.S. president was a «hugely dangerous development for the future of our planet» because he believes that climate change is a hoax.

The Russian «hoax» was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia — it never did!»

Purveyors of death they are, and they have killed President Muhammadu Buhari many times over, cloned the websites of international media houses to announce the hoax, but their wishes did not become horses, so they remain stranded, with nothing to ride.

Cuomo spent the morning in Albany meeting with Jewish groups, including an appearance at a Jewish Community Center in the city that was among those targeted for a hoax bomb threat.

We are also left with deep disappointment because President - elect Trump has attacked climate change as a hoax.

In another case, Nassau police last year cleared Mangano and declared a «hoax» reports that Mangano exchanged sexually suggestive text messages with a public relations executive.

Police investigators found no evidence that Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano exchanged steamy texts with a woman — and instead say he was the victim of a hoax, authorities said Thursday.

Nassau police found no evidence that County Executive Edward Mangano exchanged sexually suggestive text messages with a marketing executive and have concluded they were a «hoax.»

Another hoax: that the April Fool's tradition began with Renaissance calendar reform, when the new year was moved from April to January, and those ignorant of the switch were mocked.

The video looks authentic, though I haven't been able to come up with any independent confirmation, and if anyone could pull off a hoax of this magnitude, it would be a wily ITP student.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

This view is at least congruent with his belief that human - caused climate change is a hoax, which puts him at odds with pretty much every climate scientist on the planet and the majority of the U.S. public.

The only real hoax here is that van der Linden is throwing global warming skeptics under the bus with conspiracy theorists who believe that nasa faked the moon landing, the government holds aliens hostage in Area 51, and the Boston Marathon bombings were an inside job.

Singh has been working with law enforcement on ways to identify people who have made hoax or threatening phone calls.