Sentences with phrase «year of fake news»

The year 2017 was also the year of fake news.

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The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

Then - president Barack Obama tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about the risk of fake news on Facebook last year.

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.

The two most discussed concerns this past year were about diversity of viewpoints we see (filter bubbles) and accuracy of information (fake news).

There's been a lot of attention focused over the past year on the rise of so - called «fake news,» a term that has even made its way into tweets by President Trump.

«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.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

Manny Mogato, a journalist with Reuters in the Philippines and this year's winner of the McLuhan Fellowship, will be presenting on the spread of fake news in the Philippines and how this undermines the news media's role.

Germany at the start of the year began enforcing a new hate speech law that gives social networks just 24 hours to act on hate speech, fake news, and illegal material.

However, the number who believe that online news sources regularly report «fake news» has increased from 41 % a year ago to a majority of 52 % today.

Now, after an intense year of political and social upheaval — not to mention the emergence of the fake news engine and the Russian advertising scandal — it's no surprise that Facebook is re-examining things yet again.

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.

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.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

The 77 % who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63 % of the public who felt that way last year.

But the company has struggled with a number of issues over the past year, including the proliferation of «fake news,» live broadcasting of murders, and creating filter bubbles that have contributed to a divided nation.

According to The Christian Post, the trouble started after a fake Facebook page — that was meant to resemble an actual news station — released a story accusing one of the family's 18 - year - old sons of blaspheming Islam.

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all true but you will never convince the 4th place junkies... Ramsey should be playing for a team like WBA its his level... i still have to laugh at the hands off barcelona brigade who bought in to the fake news of a couple of years ago...

It's a bit dispiriting that this bit of silliness was my most - read post of the year, though I guess it's nice that my «fake news» corrective was actually read and shared?

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.

Rural people who have only had internet access for 1 - 2 years are more confused by fake news and less wary of web message rumors and stories.

A year later, Yunji and his brother, Chen Tianshi, who is now Cambricon's CEO, teamed up to design a novel chip architecture that could enable portable consumer devices to rival that feat — making them capable of recognizing faces, navigating roads, translating languages, spotting useful information, or identifying «fake news.»

Ten years later, we have an industry of fake news and digital misinformation.

Denial — This is a true story that continues to haunt me, especially as fake news and the alt - right movement have wielded a terrifying amount of influence this past year.

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 ″.

Forty - seven years after The Washington Post published the so - called Pentagon Papers, there is another paranoid bully in the White House, press freedom is under real threat and the US capital is awash with lies, slander and allegations of «fake news».

His new film arrives at just the right moment: the end of a year that saw the current occupant of the White House, employing empty cries of «fake news,» openly declaring members of the free press to be his enemies.

On an episode of Radiolab recorded earlier this year, host Simon Adler leads us down a fascinating and somewhat terrifying path into the future of fake news, where videos of real people — like a U.S. president — can be made to say fake things.

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Set some two years after When Will There Be Good News, Jackson is wandering around England, looking for his fake wife, Tessa, and researching the real parents of a New Zealand adoptee, Hope McMaster.

Ron Silliman contemplates the end of his eight - year poetry blog; a fake Rahm Emanuel lands a book deal; the PEN World Voices Festival all - star lineup is announced; the role of poetry in the Taliban's war strategy; and other news.

The story begins with the news that, almost ten years after the crime, the fake Picasso they replaced the real one with is in danger of being discovered.

The Frankfurt Book Fair, opened this year by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, also kicked off discussions of the role of books in an era of fake news.

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Very limited number of things Sony could do to stop me buying a PS5, it's practically a bucket list accomplishment as I've read fake news on this device for over 20 years lol!

Last year brought major political shocks to the world: the election of Donald Trump; the rise of «fake news;» and the emergence of populist, anti-globalization movements in Britain, the Philippines and elsewhere.

Earlier this year, Alysha Hasham of the Toronto Star made reference to the «fake news» provision under s. 181 the Code, which was successfully struck down in 1992 under R. v. Zundel,

The winners of the wooden spoon this year were Doughty Street Chambers and DPG won best team name with «They aren't wrong answers it's Fake News».

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 2017, last year, during the special election, the senate seat in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools that we built to detect fake accounts that were trying to spread false news and we found a lot of different accounts coming from Macedonia.

That makes it one of the most - engaged with tweets in recent days, including Trump's year - end tweet wishing everyone — «even Fake News Media» — a Happy New Yyear - end tweet wishing everyone — «even Fake News Media» — a Happy New YearYear.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

The recent troubles follow Facebook's most difficult year yet, as the company dealt with fake news, «filter bubbles» that lead to increasing polarization, and congressional hearings over Russian agents» alleged use of social media to meddle with the 2016 presidential elections.

In Myanmar, Facebook basically is the internet, and it has been accused by the U.N. of fueling the genocide there through misinformation and fake news, also prevalent during Kenya's volatile elections last year.

Years before Russian trolls organized pro-Trump flash mobs, advertised fake news to tens of millions of Americans, and promoted anti-immigrant hate, they pushed and pushed to get Ukrainian activists suspended from the social network.

The controversy drove Facebook's stock price down nearly 7 % on Monday, suggesting that investors are feeling skittish about the regulatory liabilities of a company that has spent the last year dogged by questions of fake news and Russian propaganda.