People can still share the false information on Facebook because false information isn't against the company's Community Standards.
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"Even when people have knowledge that directly contradicts false information, they fail to detect that it is false information," said Butler.
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"We believe reporting false information puts people&aposs lives in danger, and any person reporting false information should be held accountable," she said.
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It's also incredibly hard to correct false information once it has spread into various media ecosystems, especially when that false information is politically convenient.
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Gravelle is charged with a total 16 counts for maliciously conveying false information about explosives, false information and hoax as well as threats to the president.
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Not only was he known to be trying to get this false information to the press, but evidence mounted that he misrepresented sources and stated false information.
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" He said: "Was this — any false information planted?
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Conversely, when false information when presented alongside truth — i.e.
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However, it is illegal to provide false information to Congress.
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But instead of political intrigue, this false information involved food.
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Of those, 13 prosecuted citizens for allegedly spreading false information.
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Of those, 22016 prosecuted citizens for allegedly spreading false information.
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The other one is actually paying money for false information.
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You see the FISA courts lied to, given false information.
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Does this source tend to produce false information or not?
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" He added that the strike "was based on false information.
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Throughout 2018, Twitter pledged to combat false information targeting voters.
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Many of the decoy sites offered outlandish or false information.
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Carson said the false information may have cost him votes.
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Harmful false information can be spread at a rapid rate.
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Here are some tips for spotting and avoiding false information.
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But Mr. Xi is targeting much more than false information.
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"Russia has huge experience in spreading false information," he said.
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But it's also used to forward badly sourced false information.
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Never before has it been easier to disseminate false information.
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Popular YouTubers also became a plaything for trolls spreading false information.
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Slaughter still faces a misdemeanor charge of giving police false information.
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I want to spread false information as if it were real.
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"They're trying to break unions and spreading false information," Strickman said.
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He has promoted the reporting of fake and outright false information.
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There's a reason repressive regimes are notorious for spreading false information.
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But as Adam says in the film, you get false information.
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He also accuses Natural Fruit of giving false information to authorities.
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The origins of the false information about the boy are murky.
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They could help probe, expose and dissolve false information and myths.
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Providing false information in order to evade arrest is a felony.
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Strangers publicly discussed my private life based on patently false information.
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We are disappointed that false information is being reported as fact.
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They cautioned the public against speculation and the spread of false information.
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"These things that have been alleged are clearly false information," Putin said.
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Over the course of the day, this proved to be false information.
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Facebook is going to more prominently label posts that include false information.
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Reasons vary, but some point to false information that vaccines cause autism.
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In both cases, neither politician actually presented false information to the public.
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But it's also smart to verify every rumor before spreading false information.
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One user even impersonated Wood in a thread once, spreading false information.
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"There was a lot of false information out there," Mr Dobbs recalls.
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The tech company denied it asked Definers to disseminate any false information.
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He is accused of both giving false information to police and loitering.
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The company's advertising policy allows ads with false information — but not cursing.
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It blocked debt collector attorneys from suing consumers based on false information.
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We did a poor job of tracking down leaks of false information.
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" A Treasury spokesman initially said Speier's letter was "premised on false information.
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It is government fighting false information by providing context, analysis and facts.
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The lawsuit also claims the employee leaked false information to the media.
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Some of the baby formula posts now bear a false information warning.
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He's now facing 2 counts of communicating false information of planned arson.
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Jack: It wasn't just YouTube that spread false information about the shooting.
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It remains far easier to spread false information than to stop it.
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This "fake news" nonsense isn't really about the dissemination of false information.
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The coalition later said the attack had been based on false information.
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The spread of false information online is corrosive for society at large.
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That's been known to happen when that false information is trending online.
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And we can try to correct false information where we see it.
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We are not mere lab rats shaped by the false information we encounter.
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The company also said it would reject ads promoting false information about vaccines.
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And it's all too easy to find risky or just plain false information.
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Even more than false information, disinformation campaigns happen largely outside of Facebook's control.
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During the campaign, the party spread rumors and false information about its opponents.
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But what if the false information is coming from the White House itself?
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While speaking with officers, James allegedly gave two false names and false information.
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One side could be right, and the other could be peddling false information.
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Practically any solution for preventing the spread of false information raises other problems.
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Krishna has been arrested on four charges, including impersonation and providing false information.
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After the switch, Trending Topics repeatedly surfaced conspiracy theories and outright false information.
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Publications that willingly spread false information have been blamed for helping elect Trump.
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If the information is "required" enter false information that you can easily remember.
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But if [Fred Trump's children] knowingly gave false information, that could be opened.
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Twitter's new events page for the coming midterm elections are highlighting false information.
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A series of investigations proved to be fruitless or based on false information.
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Do you think a lot about this concept of putting out false information?
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Too often, we make major life decisions based on outdated or false information.
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Doyle said people online had been spreading false information about his family connections.
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Nor does it focus too intently on why a person shares false information.
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"The Whistleblower gave false information & dealt with corrupt politician Schiff," Trump tweeted Monday.
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Instead, he issued the correction below the original tweet, which contains false information.
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He warned against recirculating "false information" that was spreading discord in the community.
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The patient's medical records contained false information and forged signatures of nursing staff.
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I won't pretend that I've never passed on false information in my life.
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"We deplore the spread of false information in the wake of this tragedy."
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He closely questioned Bickert on how a Facebook user seeing a political ad that contains false information would know they are being targeted by false information, rejecting repeated attempts to misleading reframe his question as just about general targeting data.
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He's also been accused of peddling demonstrably false information, and just making shit up.
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But it's much easier to debunk false information these days, thanks to the internet.
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"Social media far more powerful verifier than spreader of false information" Bailey told TechCrunch.
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Jurors convicted Anthony on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement.
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They said he had violated rules against hate speech, false information or conspiracy theories.
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The comments immediately came pouring in alerting Minaj that she was sharing false information.
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Campbell and his wife were also charged with providing false information to the police.
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In April, Ms. Heard pleaded guilty to providing false information on her passenger card.
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Is the government releasing false information, while continuing to classify documents containing the truth?
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He also admitted to filing a public document with false information, also a felony.
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The more alarming component is Russian trolls' use of Facebook to disseminate false information.
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Presenting false information, under the guise of journalistic candor, only exacerbates this perilous situation.
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So hashtags that include posts with confirmed false information won't display any search results.
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Prosecutors argue Manafort "provided false information" about his financial standing on his loan applications.
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Ms. Thorson was particularly skeptical of articles that focused purely on debunking false information.
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I now suspect we were fed false information about both of these talented women.
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However, they say they are working hard to stem the tide of false information.
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This has been exacerbated by the spread of false information by official Chinese sources.
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GHOSN: CHARGES AGAINST ME BASELESS, PROSECUTORS HAVE LEAKED FALSE INFORMATION TO PRESS, CONCEALED EVIDENCE
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It's worth noting that the Chinese state media has also been spreading false information.
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Local police departments threatened to punish anyone who spread "false information" about the outbreak.
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Reporters who received inaccurate or false information from sources are not bound by confidentiality.
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Posts that have been debunked appear with "False Information" labels that obscure their content.
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America's most infamous conspiracy theorist has been sued for spreading completely false information, again.
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Unfortunately, there are those that have that interest to propagate this kind of false information.
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We are interrogating him for giving false information to different media and for provocative comments.
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In that suit, the investor accused Definers of disseminating false information about the London incident.
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Nimmo says that the best deterrent to any spread of false information is public awareness.
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"That early experiment demonstrated the power of the internet to monetize false information," he said.
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"Fake news" doesn't literally mean "false information"; it means rejecting something you don't agree with.
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It would be more appropriate to delay giving any information, rather than providing false information.
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False information was retweeted by more people than the true stuff, and faster to boot.
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The reason false information does better than the true stuff is simple, say the researchers.
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So it's also strange, like what's our motivation to put out false information, you know?
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Alam faces charges of spreading false information about recent student protests that embarrassed the government.
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Classical databases assume everything is correct, so any future queries might unwittingly return false information.
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They included formation of an irregular armed group, committing terrorist acts and spreading false information.
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The company announced Thursday that it will block hashtags that surface false information about vaccines.
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Their anger and alienation has proved a fertile ground for false promises and false information.
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Meanwhile, platforms like Twitter have been "victimized" by the spread of false information, Clinton said.
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They are left guessing — sometimes incorrectly — and basing their actions on of this false information.
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Its two dozen members have a simple mission: to counter false information related to Estonia.
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Those regulations have certain provisions against issuing false information, among other lengthy rules and guidelines.
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They also spread false information that my presentations to lawmakers around the world were untrue.
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Disseminating false information to help sell a product finds no protection in the First Amendment.
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And when someone belatedly registers, and then gives false information, inferring malign intent is easier.
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" He said he "may ban it completely if (dissemination of false information) is not controlled.
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The U.N. experts presented "general allegations culled from false information," he said in a statement.
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If he provides false information about those connections, that would be an obstruction of justice.
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In other words, when does a platform have an editorial responsibility to stop false information?
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Many are increasingly worried about how the manipulated content could influence elections with false information.
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The prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, called for people not to believe false information circulating online.
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The network spent too long spraying its viewers with false information about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mr. Lam has since been arrested on suspicion of misleading the police by false information.
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I am disgusted by this highly public airing of false information and closed-minded views.
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So why does the president allow her to keep going out and spreading false information?
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In the panic and confusion often found amid an outbreak, false information can spread quickly.
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These attorneys general are not targeting false information intended solely to induce a commercial transaction.
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The app faces the threat of anti-immigrant trolls deliberately misleading people with false information.
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" Similarly, Vindman said Giuliani was "promoting false information that undermined the United States' Ukraine policy.
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Facebook is promoting its other efforts to combat false information on the site as well.
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Facebook says it's getting more serious about preventing false information from going viral on Instagram.
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It is a crime to knowingly give false information to federal investigators or to Congress.
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Media investigations have shed light on YouTube's difficulties preventing its algorithm from promoting false information.
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ET, but not before CBS and NBC News somehow "confirmed" the same exact false information.
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Liang Xiaoliang, a corporate communication executive at ChemChina, described the Reuters' reporting as 'false information'.
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Students should not rely on partial and potentially false information obtained nefariously by the media.
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They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information.
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She went to the Ukrainian embassy and they were disseminating false information on Donald Trump.
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The social side is looking how to protect against dissemination of false information, a growing problem.
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Where an independent media was drowned out by propaganda and the willful dissemination of false information.
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In both cases, the evidence showed Manafort provided false information in order to get the loans.
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Facebook has faced scrutiny for its role in the spread of false information that incited violence.
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Manafort was also charged with securing millions of dollars in bank loans based on false information.
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YourNewsWire is a well-known site that traffics in conspiracy theories sometimes based on false information.
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It is often used as the foundation for a further accrual of false information and lies.
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In its early days, anyone could create and get away with making pages with false information.
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Another employee, Patrick Cook, community drinking water unit specialist, allegedly misled the EPA with false information.
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He also denied that Facebook instructed the firm to spread false information about the company's critics.
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Schiff said the notion of injecting that kind of false information into an election "terrifies" him.
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The French electoral commission has warned the media they can be prosecuted for publishing false information.
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That could allow criminals to provide false information with little risk of getting caught, critics say.
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Grkovic has approached most of the sites and people posting online to remove any false information.
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"The whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false information," Trump told reporters on Sunday.
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Manafort is accused of presenting false information to banks in order to obtain residential mortgage loans.
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All the while, the company unwittingly gave enormous exposure to a damaging piece of false information.
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Ideally, politicians would not release false information to the public in order to promote an agenda.
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Saturday's attack is not the first to have been triggered by false information circulated on WhatsApp.
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False information is not excusable when it affects the health of individuals, the community and humanity.
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On the company's earnings call, he defended Facebook's decision to allow ads that contain false information.
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"Deception occurs when an individual benefits from signalling false information to a receiver," the researchers wrote.
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It operates a "troll factory" out of St. Petersburg where individuals create and spread false information.
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The company has already been working with local civil groups to identify false information for removal.
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Her supervisor admitted to giving a sheriff's detective false information about the allegations, court records show.
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" The South African government responded by saying Trump's remarks were "hysterical" and "based on false information.
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Pompeo also noted that there is false information being spread about the U.S. government instituting lockdowns.
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And overall, there are three key principles that make a piece of false information more believable.
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Prosecutors say Manafort lied about his income and provided other false information to get the loans.
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WATCH: Facebook and YouTube need to be more aggressive about false information, says former Twitter CEO
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Klages's response then, Lemke recalled, was to upbraid her and warn her against spreading false information.
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These social media firms have made some progress in responding to the threats of false information.
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They're also accused of submitting false information to the Justice Department about their activities for Ukraine.
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People who then try to correct the record often feel drowned out by the false information.
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The dissemination of false information -- in particular about the spread of weapons -- could have deadly consequences.
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WATCH: Facebook and YouTube need to be more aggressive about false information, says former Twitter CEO
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"The (state and the Federal Communications Commission) have false information in the reports," the man said.
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Bullet points follow, containing false information about Unsworth that I am not especially interested in repeating.
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The bill has not specifically cited government's desires to contain false information for this proposal, however.
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It said its choice was a "call to action" to help fight false information that circulated.
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More parents are refusing to vaccinate their children, sometimes based on false information that vaccines cause autism.
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But it seems even Google's news search isn't infallible when it comes to filtering out false information.
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The fact so many wikis have been locked with false information is horrifing to say the least.
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He spreads false information without any sense of shame and with a regularity that normalizes this action.
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This is obviously false information and the type of content that will no longer fly on Facebook.
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But Facebook's critics argue these tools don't go far enough in reducing the spread of false information.
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The sites already forbid posting false information about how to vote, like that Election Day isn't Nov.
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But that strategy, she claimed, was met and matched by a strategy that included spreading false information.
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ABC staffers privately pointed out that Trump frequently spreads false information and does not apologize for it.
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The jury convicted Casey Anthony on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers.
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Telegram isn't marketing the "Slow Mode" as a way to tackle the spread of false information, though.
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The Fake News Act of 2024 had required social networks to prevent the spread of false information.
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The satellite gives false information, says one woman; there is no payout in good years, complains another.
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After she declined his alleged invitation, the reporter says Hufnagel gave her false information for a story.
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Sounds like an honest mistake; it's doubtful an ISS astronaut like Kanai would willingly spew false information.
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With the new policy changes, Facebook will demote pages and groups that share false information about vaccines.
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He has fueled a political atmosphere filled with false information and misstatements that destabilize our public discourse.
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In most instances, Shanmugam said, the law will not call for the outright removal of false information.
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They didn't buy it: he was arrested on charges of "communicating of false information of planned arson."
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The statement did not mention Lu's earlier remarks, but hinted that he had been fed false information.
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States, it turns out, often require providers to tell women false information about the risks of abortion.
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Prosecutors said Moffett filled out prior authorization forms with false information or caused others to do so.
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The extreme amounts of false information that is to come from this policy can be very dangerous.
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In our lab, we exposed study participants to false information about terrorist incidents, overpopulation, and pathogen outbreaks.
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"Still, we can help by doing a better job filtering out false information or clickbait," he said.
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Users have pointed to examples in which bad actors have repeatedly shared false information without being removed.
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They said Suarez concealed the illegal financial operation with false information given to the bank's compliance office.
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Park also alleged that the Shincheonji provided false information that obstructed the work of the health authorities.
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The first part, the false information, AKA fake news, it was called to its attention pretty widely.
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Another 12 percent found that they see "a lot" of false information on the COVID-19 outbreak.
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As the modified clips proliferated, it showed just how quickly and convincingly deepfakes can spread false information.
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"This is false information, the borders aren't opening," said Boris Cheshirkov, a spokesman for the refugee agency.
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India first blocked access to Facebook in 2012 amid riots linked to false information on the platform.
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He also paid Mr. Potter to use online services to send out releases containing the false information.
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Elizabeth Warren proposed establishing criminal penalties for knowingly sharing false information about when and how to vote.
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How much of this false information is intentional trickery or well-meaning confusion is difficult to know.
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" Norris also posted on Facebook that there was "false information going around about my personal presidential endorsement.
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He claims they spread false information and hire people who are consumed with bringing down his presidency.
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In any case, there seems to be little appetite for truth among those who peddle false information.
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"The result showed that most people were misled by false information from anti-gay groups," it said.
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" The central government has also been issuing regulations that try to control the spread of "false information.
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"We should not be used as a platform to spread false information and bizarre conspiracies," said Rep.
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Because they likely have peddled false information before, if three news organizations accepted the information as fact.
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Politicians are now free to spread false information on Facebook so long as they purchase an ad.
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It also works with fact-checking organizations, including in Germany, to debunk false information on the platform.
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And he had been out publicly providing false information about it, which creates a potential compromise. Right.
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According to a federal grand jury indictment, Cohen provided false information to the leading rating agency, A.M. Best.
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"There has to be an intent to give the false information," says Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt.
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Police arrested the 17-year-old suspect for prowling, residential burglary, and providing false information about his identity.
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Ron Wyden, who received multiple letters from Pai last year containing false information about the May 2017 incident.
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The stakes: Experts worry some households would either provide false information or not return their surveys at all.
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This interference took the form of armies of bots spreading false information shared from fake social media accounts.
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The charge of false information and hoaxes can carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.
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The move comes as Facebook has struggled to curb the viral sharing of false information on its service.
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Burundi's government often dismisses the allegations, saying they are based on false information supplied by the regime's opponents.
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The social media site has previously drawn criticism for refusing to remove political ads that contain false information.
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The Macron spokesman referred to the two news outlets' "systematic desire to issue fake news and false information".
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"We are watching them, and people of Zimbabwe must not be hoodwinked by this false information," he said.
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In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, Facebook announced it would ban false information about voting.
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"He gave false information," Morgan says, claiming that Howard claimed to have been in Alabama when Naomi disappeared.
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Those reports were circulating based on an email at HUD, which Swift said was based on "false information."
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Google's news offering doesn't have the risk of false information virally spreading, but it's also a black box.
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The United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) issued a warning against what it described as false information and rumours.
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The accusations included false information about fees and failing to supervise a senior partner who charged personal expenses.
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Abuse involves the deliberate spread of false information, attempts to undermine faith in established reality, trolling, and harassment.
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Facebook is going to begin banning false information involving voting ahead of the US's midterm elections next month.
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If a Facebook user posts a misleading image—a meme with false information about voting procedures, say—Mr.
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Just build self-serving networks of people or bots to put out enough false information to obscure reality.
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The paper published "false information" and allowed inappropriate comments to be made on its website, the ministry said.
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"We know people don't want to see false information at the top of their News Feed," said Lyons.
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The spread of false information on social media has become widespread in the lead-up to Brazil's Oct.
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It says it seeks only to play a part in a hopefully collaborative fight against false information online.
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Additionally, the knowledge panel has a feedback button at the bottom that allows anyone to flag false information.
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"They peddled false information claiming the shooter was associated with some kind of anti-Trump army," she said.
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False information about when to vote or misinformation about voting requirements, are also against Twitter's terms of service.
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Alam had been arrested in August on suspicion of spreading "propaganda and false information" during widespread student protests.
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Yet some parents refuse to vaccinate their children, citing religious reasons or false information that vaccines cause autism.
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They can refuse to contribute to the spread of false information by not sharing stuff they can't verify.
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President Trump has also used his Twitter power to spread false information that strongly influences the national conversation.
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"The whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false information," Trump told reporters at the White House.
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We should be considering how best to counteract the dissemination of propaganda and false information via social media.
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The American people deserve not to be misled by the false information provided by these intelligence agents. Col.
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The Washington Post's Fact Checker gave the $2202 billion figure "four Pinocchios," the highest rating for false information.
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Reuters received a message on WhatsApp containing false information and forwarded it to the service around 0640 GMT.
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It would also be allowed to impose criminal penalties for providing false information or violating the board's orders.
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When and where did Steele meet with these high-level Russian sources who provided the apparently false information?
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Eritrea has said the U.N.'s allegations of human rights violations are biased and based on false information.
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""It has been proven to be false information but we still don't know why she is being detained.
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Thirteen countries, including Rwanda and Bangladesh, prosecuted people this year for allegedly spreading false information, Freedom House said.
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In his posts on Monday, Trump suggested without evidence that China was putting out false information about coronavirus.
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"During the conspiracy, Todd Chrisley directed a co-conspirator to send false information to banks," the indictment says.
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Jack: Well, another week, and another example of the big tech platforms promoting misleading or downright false information.
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The legislation gives broad latitude to the public prosecutor to determine what counts as distorted or false information.
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The false-information campaigns were related to the hack, but no data was reportedly stolen from HHS systems.
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It increases the criminal penalties for FISA misuse, including presenting false information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Kromenaker, said the law would force doctors to give false information that is not backed up by science.
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By the time false information appears in your social media feed, you probably aren't seeing the original post.
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As the engine room floods, children are abandoned, marriages break up, false information is disseminated, and rioting erupts.
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And earlier this month, Google announced a $300 million initiative to address the rise of false information online.
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Regulators said the disclosures on the securities contained false information or misrepresented the health of the underlying mortgages.
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But that list also contains dozens of popular videos that feature unconfirmed or false information about the virus.
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False information spread furiously on the platform during the 2016 campaign, leading to widespread criticism of the company.
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The platform has been used to spread false information that has resulted in gruesome fatalities in real world.
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It may be less that false information from dubious news sources is shaping their view of the world.
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"Our goal was always to avoid rumors and the dissemination of false information," Televisa said in a statement.
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In past nonfatal swattings, suspects have been charged and convicted in federal court with crimes such as conspiracy to provide false information, which can lead to up to five years in federal prison, and false information and hoaxes, which has a maximum sentence of life in prison if a death results.
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This is the practice that influences investors in the stock market to make sales based on false information. 2.
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Even top executives, such as Wal-mart's David Tovar, have lost their jobs for providing false information to employers.
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In the ultimate form of Kabuki theater, the ultimate disseminator of false information is pointing his finger at others.
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As technology makes it easier to lie and spread false information incredibly quickly, we need intellectually humble, curious people.
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Some of the reports published in America have false information such as Momo will be fighting a professional fighter.
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Along with adding to the epidemic of fake social media accounts, they also litter legitimate websites with false information.
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Instagram will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false information about vaccines, the company said today.
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How good do you think you are at detecting false information on Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites?
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BuzzFeed News asked Jim Hoft, the editor of Gateway Pundit, to comment on why he spread this false information.
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While it allows politicians to run ads with false information, its policy does not allow PACs to do so.
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The alleged hackers "posted false information on the accounts," though in fairness, that's kind of The Onion's business model.
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Medicare warns NPI applicants that submitting false information could lead to a $250,000 fine and five years in prison.
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He accused RFI of "conveying false information," forcing the authorities to "take provisional measures," Mende said, without giving details.
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But the issue is harder to duck when the spread of false information can lead to real-world harm.
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But more than 70 percent said they worry about false information or fake news being used as a weapon.
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Google's also goo an issue in YouTube being used to spread false information—which then influences Google's search ranking.
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A reporter pressed Trump on his claims, questioning why Americans should trust Trump when he is providing false information.
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Qatar called on the countries to not leak "false information" ahead of the ICAO meeting in Montreal on Monday.
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" Police: Be careful what you post Lakeland police warned people that the Facebook post contained "false information and speculation.
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Kadar was also charged with conveying false information to police regarding harm to private residents in Georgia and cyberstalking.
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The sexual abuse charges accompany charges including disseminating false information, fraud, money laundering and causing damage to the public.
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Misinformation is false information that's out there in the world — anything from rumors to deliberate propaganda to unintentional errors.
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The rise of fake news is about more than click-bait articles and false information spreading across social networks.
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As of yesterday, Facebook's fact checking partners began reviewing suspicious photos and videos which can also spread false information.
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On the other hand, dissemination of false information, particularly on a prominent and influential site, can be very harmful.
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Facebook, citing the importance of free speech, said it would continue to allow them, even those with false information.
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Carrera accused the City Hall of spreading false information and said everyone in the camp was without a home.
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Some have asked why it doesn't outright ban Pages that spread false information, to which experts say: It's complicated.
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They are accused of giving false information in a June 29 speech by Thanathorn that was posted on Facebook.
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"Our reaction regarding the error of giving false information to the public was conveyed to French authorities," Aksoy said.
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In a case about false information on a website, Justice Clarence Thomas got the defendant confused with the plaintiff.
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Along with the ubiquity of smartphones, unfortunately, people have also gained the ability to obtain and share false information.
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He pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in the malicious conveying of false information, namely a bomb threat hoax.
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He has been charged with spreading rumors and false information via text messages and inciting violence against the state.
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Chatbots releasing false information on Twitter were used to disrupt political discussions in the U.S., a new study found.
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Foreign Minister Timo Soini has also acknowledged the alleged propaganda, saying the government was countering false information with facts.
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Over the following days Twitter was used to protest against the irresponsibility of The Administrator in publishing false information.
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Chile's national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, said his office would open an investigation into the false information on social media.
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The big picture: Both a red-state Democrat and President Trump have tweeted false information on the heated matter.
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Anyone convicted of misleading police by giving false information or making a false report could face six months imprisonment.
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Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information about the coronavirus is proliferating around the world.
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Every day he posts updates, often containing false information, that spread a narrative of the Rohingya as aggressive outsiders.
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Throughout 2016, the alt-right consistently used social media to disseminate false information and propaganda to the mainstream public.
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When someone calls them out for spreading false information, they hide behind claims that the whole thing was satire.
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"With each news cycle, the false-information system grows more efficient," New York Times opinion writer Charlie Warzel noted.
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Texas' Secretary of State office said on Tuesday it had received reports of robocalls providing false information to voters.
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Notably, President Donald Trump ran an ad on Facebook that included false information about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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Ms. Heard pleaded guilty to providing false information on her passenger card, and prosecutors dropped the more serious charges.
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Facebook told the New York Post on Wednesday that it&aposs working to stop the spread of false information.
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Memes can contain false information that are sent out across the world that can change the opinion of millions.
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" Among the questions to guard against false information, the handbook states, are: "What is the aim of this information?
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Washington is worried about a wave of U.S. patent applications from Chinese citizens, many reportedly filled with false information.
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Police made him and several other medical workers sign a document promising not to spread further "false" information online.
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Media Matters, a nonprofit, recently issued a report on the platform's role in spreading false information on the coronavirus.
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The email had spread false information that five people in the country had contracted the deadly flu-like virus.
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Facebook will begin removing from its platform false information that is intended to incite violence and other physical harm.
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The report claimed that India was proposing the voluntary identity-verification requirement to curb the spread of false information.
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He added that Mr. Trump has also spread false information that the president accuses the media of not reporting.
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The phenomenon of fake news is reinforced by powerful figures who cite the false information and help spread it.
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However, if a politician were to repeat the same false information themselves, it would be allowed, the company confirmed.
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Texas' Secretary of State office said on Tuesday it had received reports of robocalls providing false information to voters.
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She found that even when readers believed fact checks, they could not banish false information from their minds entirely.
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Lyons said the company was making progress in smoothing its process for fact-checkers assigned to label false information.
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"As the internet has grown, it's become increasingly segregated and debunking false information is more difficult," jokes_on_you told me.
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The lies and false information often gets parroted by both conservative news outlets like Fox News and Trump himself.
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But in practice, the company and its algorithm aid the spread of a great deal of outright false information.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is currently embroiled in a dispute with YouTube over his continued insistence on spreading false information.
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Watson, whose outlet, InfoWars, was banned from several social media sites for spreading false information, denies the video was edited.
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President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to combat some of the false information spreading about him on social media.
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Smollett was arrested and charged Thursday after authorities said he provided false information to police while reporting an aggravated battery.
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The simplest way to do this is to post false information about sales, sending potential buyers into a fake account.
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The whistleblower didn't know what he was talking about or was given false information or was even worse than that.
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He and seven others were reprimanded by Wuhan police last month for spreading "illegal and false" information about the coronavirus.
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However, the company hasn't said how it plans to deal with images, videos, or text posts that share false information.
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The president is known to sometimes tweet false information promoted by Fox News, far-right outlets, or people he trusts.
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Gates, the government's star witness, testified earlier in the week that he submitted false information to banks at Manafort's direction.
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These forwarding limits stop the spread of false information by limiting the times one person can send off a message.
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Tarvin was additionally charged with two counts of giving false information to law enforcement officials, with Sanchez facing one count.
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"Call me and people like me 'f–' all you want, but spreading false information about deadly diseases is next level."
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But critics say it's allowed them to shirk a societal responsibility to keep harmful and false information from spreading online.
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These accounts posed as liberal activists and were used to spread — among other things — false information about November's midterm elections.
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Instead of revealing the murder, Kindra allegedly "continued to provide false information to deliberately stall and/or mislead" law enforcement.
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Most significant was its assertion that Twitter cannot be "the arbiter of truth" around what is and isn't false information.
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Update August 8th, 6:25PM ET: The Justice Department declined to comment on the FCC providing false information to Congress.
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Groups gained public attention this week when The Guardian uncovered a vast network of groups spreading false information about vaccines.
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Palo Alto police arrested him a short time later for residential burglary, prowling and providing false information to an officer.
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Zo also alleges when Foster was confronted, he threatened to expose the Ball family with false information to the public.
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According to docs, obtained by TMZ, Miller was booked for providing false information or pulling a hoax with federal authorities.
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Someone who can feed the cars false information can potentially cause them to crash into each other or nearby walls.
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That's what's going to happen even if other outlets [release contradictory information], because the [false] information just flows so uncontrollably.
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In the following days, Facebook dug in its heels, insisting that posting false information alone did not violate its rules.
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Rather than filling this out truthfully, use false information or an inside joke that hackers wouldn't be able to guess.
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"Last week you wrote that the problem of fake news and false information online is particularly complex," the letter reads.
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Pishevar has accused that firm of spreading false information after he was briefly arrested in London following a rape allegation.
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The idea was that he defrauded the Senate, by providing false information, in order to get confirmed for his judgeship.
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Facebook confirmed that false information could be included in an advertisement, so long as it doesn&apost include any profanity.
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Even more are reassessing Facebook's role as a media company and wondering how to stop the distribution of false information.
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The range makes it difficult to understand how the false information appeared in the Knowledge Graph, according to the Post.
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Democrats say the spreading of false information and other efforts by Russians to interfere are a massive and continuing issue.
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The false information is spread through social media posts, comments in news stories and videos posted on traditional journalistic outlets.
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The National Security Advisor provided false information to the public, which was then repeated by several senior White House officials.
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We're looking for false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
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But researchers have also found that it can happen in studies where the false information is from a trusted source.
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Here are examples of how false information has spread in Europe recently, polarizing opinions about contentious topics like Muslim immigration.
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B.J.P. supporters used false information and criticism of Rohingya refugees as shorthand for broader anti-Muslim sentiments, Ms. Soundararajan said.
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Despite online policing efforts by American technology companies, it remains far easier to spread false information than to stop it.
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Mr. Luthmann, 39, created phony pages for these individuals, Mr. Nelson said, and then used them to disseminate false information.
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I've spent 23 years teaching in a Southern California classroom, and we're seeing a true bubble of false information online.
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In several of these videos that have been identified by Facebook as "partly false information," Biden and former Democratic Rep.
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In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has used the platform to spread false information about critics of his drug war.
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These accounts posed as liberal activists and were used to spread — among other things — false information about November's midterm elections.
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But Root, a Newsmax host and radio show host, has a history of promoting conspiracy theories and circulating false information.
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This includes any false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 21 midterm elections.
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We're looking for false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 20103 midterm elections.
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In a statement, foreign ministers also told Ankara to stop the spread of "false information" that EU's borders are open.
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This short documentary, about the Facebook team developing strategies to fight bias-driven false information, is produced by Facebook itself.
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Ms. Tlaib said the practice had resulted in widespread hate-mongering and a flurry of false information about her, personally.
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Facebook has since taken steps to combat false information, including enlisting third-party fact checkers and promoting trustworthy news sources.
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" Hours later, BMLG responded in a statement on their website and denied Swift's allegations, accusing the star of "false information.
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"Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information," the notice said.
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Furthermore, he has been propagating both within Japan and internationally false information on Japan&aposs legal system and its practice.
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The protesters said Facebook's policies make it possible for American voters to be manipulated through false information and targeted ads.
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The comedian then "continued to convey false information to investigators while the public safety response was ongoing," the complaint alleges.
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The President has played fast and loose with the facts as he has spread false information through his Twitter feed.
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Denise also confides to Adam that Mr. Snyder deliberately revised portions of her analysis with false information to mislead leadership.
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Pivoting, he said there was still "a load of evidence that Ukrainians created false information" for the Obama White House.
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St. Jude has denied the allegations and sued both firms, saying they disseminated false information to manipulate its stock price.
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Mr. Sessions's interview came in a week in which the Trump White House twice put forth false information about Guantánamo.
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Dick Durbin of spreading false information about what Trump said at the meeting and added that Trump has been misrepresented.
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Facebook added a correction notice to a post by a fringe news site that Singapore's government said contained false information.
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The publication of the documents was a case of the government accepting false information because it helped justify its actions.
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Property agents must be licensed and make charging standards clear and cannot publish any false information about properties, the rules say.
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Active Facebook communities can be a force for good but they also aid the dissemination of false information, the campaigners said.
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors alleged that Samarin used false information to apply for a passport and Social Security card in 2015.
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"These things that have been alleged are clearly false information," Putin said during the joint news conference with the Moldovan president.
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Asked by email when precisely Pai knew his office had fed false information to Congress, the FCC likewise did not respond.
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That warrant also contained the false information claiming that Gypsy Rose had MS, leukemia, couldn't walk, and needed oxygen at night.
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Manafort's lawyers didn't fully deny that Manafort provided false information, but they argued that even if he did, it wasn't intentional.
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In Virginia, he's also facing charges that he submitted false information in tax returns and failed to report foreign bank accounts.
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In January, Trump accused intelligence agencies of leaking false information and said it was reminiscent of tactics used in Nazi Germany.
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Facebook doesn't have explicit rules against sharing false information, even though it attempts to down-rank those posts in News Feed.
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Even Facebook's own employees don't like the company's new rules, which allow politicians to use paid ads to spread false information.
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Instead of revealing the murder, however, Kindra allegedly "continued to provide false information to deliberately stall and/or mislead" law enforcement.
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Don't give them any reason to doubt you, and it'll be even easier for you to avoid spreading any false information.
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Others allege that false information was added to death certificates to suggest that patients died from other causes, such as alcoholism.
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And 73% of consumers, per the Edelman survey, still worry about false information or fake news being used as a weapon.
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Singapore, a Southeast Asian country with a population of 5.7 million, has also seen false information circulate since the outbreak began.
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They face up to five years in prison and fines for spreading false information and damaging national security, if found guilty.
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"This is false information that was made intentionally to make the election result look questionable and controversial," a police report said.
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He was booked at the Fresno County Jail on suspicion of possession of stolen property and providing false information, police said.
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" The prosecutors appeared to have emails from the Trumps discussing "how to coordinate false information they had given to prospective buyers.
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I mean, a lot of the control of information or the flooding of information with false information or slightly skewed information.
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And so voters who are being targeted with all of this false information are genuinely trying to make up their minds.
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Abousamra and Mehanna were questioned by the FBI in Boston in late 2006 about their overseas travel, but provided false information.
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The press may end up unintentionally propagating false information, even if it reports denials by the targets alongside the fake revelations.
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Jackson said, however, laws on anonymity and free speech could limit any steps that went beyond straightforward cases involving false information.
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US investigators in June told CNN that they believed Russian hackers breached the Qatari sites and planted false information and quotes.
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In June, US investigators told CNN that they believed Russian hackers breached the Qatari sites and planted false information and quotes.
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At any given moment, perhaps during a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, Pentagon Twitter accounts might send out false information.
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You could of course lie about any of this, or provide false information you thought was true to unsuspecting Jelly users.
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The company has been accused of putting false information on its platform from advertisers that can sometimes lead to deadly misinformation.
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What's being done to help an older generation that might be even more overwhelmed by the internet and by false information?
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They examine how to combat false information on social platforms and why the term "fake news" obscures more than it reveals.
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The President has used his rallies to stoke fear of migrants, regularly using misleading or outright false information to do so.
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Facebook's new initiative comes as the company has been increasingly criticized for its role in propagating false information masquerading as news.
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"I know [the president] is being fed false information," Tyler Merritt, a friend of Gallagher's, told Fox News viewers last month.
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It is the most compelling proof in a long time that false information repeated long enough becomes truth for many people.
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Gates said that during this time he also supplied false information to banks in order to help Manafort secure bank loans.
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There is no reason why we should accept the White House's word on this given its record of spreading false information.
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They discuss responding directly to Russia by restricting speech, flagging false information on public platforms and opening centers to counter disinformation.
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Experts worry that a system like a blockchain might corrupt historical records permanently if false information were added to its ledger.
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Another case in which the police gave false information about a witness identification came after a carjacking in Brooklyn in 270.
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But the federal government prosecuted only 460 of those cases, leading to 209 convictions, mostly on charges of providing false information.
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Police stopped their vehicle, which had Oregon plates, on July 25, and suspected they were giving false information about their identity.
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The UK government has set up a unit designed to counter the wave of false information being shared about the coronavirus.
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An email showed the siblings "discussed how to coordinate false information they had given to prospective buyers," according to the report.
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In many cases, it has been reported that ICE agents have unconstitutionally harassed and arrested innocent people based on false information.
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In the proposal, the senator calls on her 2020 rivals to make the same pledge to not knowingly share false information.
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Just the same, First Amendment protections limit the tools lawmakers can use to protect democracy from such manipulation and false information.
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A close aide to President Buhari has been called out repeatedly on Twitter for sharing false information on her verified account.
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Facebook has been fact-checking posts that have been spreading false information in an attempt to stem the tide of misinformation.
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Time after time, Trump and his allies have changed their stories, spread false information or been forced to disavow past comments.
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Trump has been widely criticized for repeating false information released online and for retweeting messages posted by conspiracy theorists and racists.
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The app will add "false information" labels that obscure posts that have been debunked by Facebook's fact checkers, the company announced.
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Facebook has taken the opposite approach, refusing to remove or fact-check ads from candidates even when they contain false information.
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So, if Trump supporters learn that he has lied or supplied false information, their support and intention-to-vote remains unaffected.
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Have you ever seen false information or hoaxes spread like wildfire there, only to discover later they were fake or untrue?
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Wednesday's external report says the third student's application contained false information and the student was not affiliated with the sailing program.
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The company also has deleted automated accounts that violate its rules, by spreading false information and engaging in other suspicious activity.
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He is accused of feeding false information to officials in an ultimately futile attempt to prevent them from discovering Volkswagen's fraud.
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The limit is intended to curb the rapid dissemination of false information like doctored photos, manipulated recordings and straight-up lies.
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It comes at a moment when activists have tried to feed news organizations false information in hopes of getting it published.
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The lawsuit cites a pattern of willful dissemination of false information by InfoWars that was established long before the Parkland shooting.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu blamed the SWB—which he heads—for giving him false information and asked top SWB officials to resign.
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"Right now, given the fact that we were given false information on our bite report and given the fact that we had been given false information as to where the animals who were engaged in this bite case were found, we're engaged in an investigation with state wildlife officials that may result in criminal charges," Norwood says.
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At the very least, the API stats that Caulfield examined clearly show that false information shared about a presidential candidate on Facebook, by users who may or may not have been aware of the information's falsehood, contributed to the public consumption of that false information — just days before one of the most significant elections in US history.
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If that is the reason the FBI is giving, they are giving you false information because they work for the general counsel.
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It's not really a life story, but a bitter reminder that Cheney helped sell Americans a war in Iraq using false information.
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Democrats accused Republicans of withholding Simpson's testimony in order to spread false information about his firm's role and undermine the Russia probe.
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A judicial inquiry in 2006 found that Arar had no terrorism connections and that the RCMP provided false information to U.S. authorities.
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" Palazzo also accused Lustgarten of being an unreliable confidential informant who routinely passed false information to the Boston task force investigators. "Mr.
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He was also charged with driving across a dividing section and without a valid license, as well as giving police false information.
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Then, of course, WhatsApp has also come under hot water for its role in the spread of false information in the nation.
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Almost no one is better at spreading propaganda and moving public opinion through the distribution of false information than President Vladimir Putin.
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These images aren't just propagating false information, they're reinforcing an age-old stigma that women on their period are weak and vulnerable.
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In October, Facebook updated its platform policies to explicitly combat attempts at voter suppression and the spreading of false information about voting.
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The web itself (and cheap domain-name registry and hosting) make it convenient for anyone to fake it and spread false information.
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What's different here, he said, is that Manafort and Gates allegedly provided false information to the Justice Department, which made things worse.
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Wakefield has been known as a much disputed adversary of the scientific community, as some believe he distributes false information about vaccinations.
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After she was fired, Smith accused Foundation Care of filing false information in an effort to keep her from receiving unemployment benefits.
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"I thought it was unwittingly, but clearly they wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across Facebook," she said.
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Lin is charged with three counts of "false official statement" for failing to report foreign travel and putting false information on documents.
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These labels will include a gray blurred screen that says "false information" that will hide false and partly false photos and videos.
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Facebook has been criticized in recent weeks for its pledge to continue running political ads, even if they contain demonstrably false information.
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Later, Ocasio-Cortez drove her point further by asking if she could run ads with false information concerning her Green New Deal.
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The company said the automated accounts were trying to spread false information and discourage people from voting in the upcoming midterm elections.
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He was singled out because he was posting dangerously false information from sources unknownl and it began to reflect poorly on ESPN.
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The false information and omissions in Papadopoulos's January 2017 interview undermined investigators' ability to challenge Mifsud when he made these inaccurate statements.
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They say in the lawsuit that California's requirement for warnings would force sellers of products containing the chemical to spread false information.
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But I think it has become victimized by deliberate efforts to shape the conversation, and push it towards conspiracies, lies, false information.
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"Social media makes it more likely that I am more exposed to false information that I am likely to believe," he added.
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A well-funded campaign to spread false information was extremely difficult for Bolsonaro's opponents and Brazil's independent press to expose or discredit.
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In speeches he has encouraged soldiers to champion government policy and crack down on those who spread false information about him online.
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According to the ACLU, voter intimidation can be categorized as aggressive questioning about qualifications, false information about voting requirements or even harassment.
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"The only negotiator is Michel Barnier and I would like to clear up ambiguities regarding false information that were spread," he added.
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Fake news isn't illegal, but it can be weaponized: There's no law that says the spreading of false information is technically illegal.
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All four Americans entered the country between Thursday and Friday, providing false information that they were tourists, the Bahrain Interior Ministry said.
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The false information reportedly spurred the then-FBI chief to publicly declare last summer that the investigation into Clinton's emails was over.
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In a blog post, Twitter announced a new reporting feature for tweets that attempt to spread false information about the electoral process.
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Why it matters: It's the latest step Facebook is taking to stop false information and fake news from spreading on its platform.
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The latter's team, it later emerged, had been expecting such activity and had laced their email servers with false information and data.
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There are many scam websites and fad diet books that spread false information to take advantage of people with chronic illness. 5.
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"He chose to have alcoholic beverages last night and got behind the wheel and provide false information to the police," she said.
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This allowed Comey's his minions to leak to the media false information that Trump was under investigation for more than six months.
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Democratic officials in the state allegedly gave altered election forms with false information to voters to fix issues with their absentee ballots.
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Fast and free way to spread false information WhatsApp has been at the center of the rise in fake news in India.
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The change could help Facebook fight fake news, as fakers are often financially motivated and blanket their false information articles in ads.
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He and EquityStar gave false information about the funds to the fund research firm Morningstar to elevate their profile, the commission said.
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Cohen said he gave false information to federal investigators and to Congress about the effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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I mean, in my own country, the United States, the worst perpetrator of false information is the President of the United States.
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Sometimes he asks for more information to make sure everything "fits" because, he claims, criminals sometimes try to pass on false information.
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"FB (Facebook) cannot be relied upon to filter falsehoods or protect Singapore from a false information campaign," it said in a statement.
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Open platforms that once seemed radically democratizing now threaten, with the tsunami of false information we all face daily, to undermine democracy.
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But social messaging apps are helping rumors and false information spread so quickly that companies and authorities are struggling to keep order.
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In our era of self-supporting false "information" and language manipulation, anyone can try coopting words into whatever meaning serves their ends.
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Shahidul Alam, an award-winning photographer, was detained in August on suspicion of spreading "propaganda and false information" during widespread student protests.
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Several news organizations pushed back, noting that the White House spokesman had delivered false information claiming a record audience for Trump's inauguration.
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Deck-Brown expressed frustration with the media, who she accused of helping to spur the destructive protests by recklessly spreading false information.
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She served as a community worker for the Black Panther Party as the F.B.I. used false information to go after its members.
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Facebook said it would expand its rules about removing content, pledging to take down false information that could lead to physical violence.
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He has accused them of spreading false information and amplifying negative news about Tesla in hopes of dragging down its stock price.
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That represented a drop of about 10 percent from the previous year, not the more alarming decline based on the false information.
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Sri Lankan officials this week blamed Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority, as well as Muslims, for spreading false information on the social networks.
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I believe that the younger audience is easier to direct in one direction by feeding them false information about a certain topic.
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Officials said new regulations might be needed to force internet platforms to do more to stop the spread of deliberately false information.
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They broke code, planted false information to mislead the Germans and parachuted into enemy territory to blow up bridges and rail lines.
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The state-run news media accused Ms. Ma of circulating false information, and her social media accounts were wiped from the internet.
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She said that I needed to do my research to make sure that I wasn't giving any false information to the police.
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Instagram was already sending false information to fact checkers and listing official health sources atop the search results for coronavirus-related queries.
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"I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down," Fauci said of Trump and correcting false information he spreads.
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Instagram said it would not remove false information, but problematic posts won't be displayed on the platform's search, hashtag or explore pages.
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Both sides have lambasted the companies for allowing political ads to include false information, forcing Twitter to attempt to ban them entirely.
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In February, during Nigeria's latest elections, false information about the supposed violence in polling stations located in opposition strongholds was widely spread.
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The United States could also jumpstart innovation for the scalable solutions to combat the spread of false information across social media platforms.
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Most of the correction orders came days — in one case, as many as 12 days — after the supposedly false information was published.
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She was arrested weeks ago on charges of child neglect and giving false information to investigators during the search for her daughter.
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Alam, who has not been charged, was arrested in August on suspicion of spreading "propaganda and false information" during widespread student protests.
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Gubarev is suing BuzzFeed News for libel for publishing the dossier, saying the dossier contains false information about him and his business.
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The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right's immunity to false information.
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In India, where WhatsApp is by far the most dominant messaging platform, false information has lead to violent outbursts, including several lynchings.
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If you try to share the post, Facebook issues a warning saying that independent fact-checkers have said it contains false information.
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She learns from Lucca that Henry was indeed wearing a wire and passed the false information along to Mike, as Elsbeth expected.
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In the aftermath, bots worked to spread false information across social media with many claiming that the suspected shooter supported Beto O'Rourke.
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Russian bots sow discord in our newsfeed by injecting false information, essentially hacking our minds by feeding us information that polarizes us.
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It could also have its own operatives in Ukraine feed false information to Trump officials visiting the country, according to the Post.
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The vast majority of videos listed on YouTube's Trending feed in India following her death were found to be peddling false information.
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On the note Facebook said it "is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information".
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Facebook, on the other hand, has defended its policy on allowing ads from politicians and parties, even when they include false information.
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State Governor Francisco Rangel on Saturday denied a massacre had occurred, accusing "irresponsible politicians" of seeking to stir unrest with false information.
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But when a major crisis hits, voters will remember that Trump was completely asleep, and even passed along misleading and false information.
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They skew hard right, and they often present their readers with misleading or outright false information, be it "birtherism" or conspiracy theories.
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Clinton mentioned Facebook by name, saying the social media network was flooded with false information about her and that people were understandably misled.
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Regardless of the campaign's noble intent, spreading false information to raise awareness for anything — even the abuse of animals — is wrong and irresponsible.
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But, if 'fake' portions remain undetected then scientists can fall foul to this, which results in false information presented in the published record.
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Investigators determined Rodman was the SUV driver but when they eventually spoke to him, he gave false information about the incident, prosecutors said.
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As When They See Us show, the cops lied about having evidence and gave false information about what the other boys had said.
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Later, Pai himself was accused of providing false information to Congress about an alleged "cyberattack" on the FCC's comment system that never happened.
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While fake news is not a new phenomenon, the spread of false information online has been exacerbated through the use of, ironically, algorithms.
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Individuals would be fined up to 400,000 rubles ($6,100) for circulating false information online that leads to a "mass violation of public order".
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This year, WhatsApp deployed campaigns in top markets like India and Brazil to educate users and help them avoid sending around false information.
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Ramos remains in prison following a Megan's Law conviction for providing false information about where he planned to live when he was released.
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False conclusions are prevented by the inputs to the function, which ensure that false information will fail to compute in an acceptable way.
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"I learnt this morning in court that the police had accused me of publishing false information and disturbing the public peace," he said.
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The company has long struggled to balance its commitment to free expression with the profusion of hateful and false information on its platform.
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He then called the police, who arrested the suspect for prowling, residential burglary, and providing false information to an officer about his identity.
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In my research, I build data science and machine learning methods to address online misbehavior, which transpires as false information and malicious users.
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Despite the recent action, the U.S. company has struggled to manage the flow of false information that flows across its services in Asia.
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Y., questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his company's complex policies involving false information in political advertisements during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
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More recently, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism for Facebook's policy of allowing political ads with false information to run on the site.
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Since Facebook is a prime channel for fake-news purveyors to share false information, the move could deal a blow to their businesses.
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Palin's lawyers contend that it was likely that the editorial's authors knew the piece included false information and acted with malice against Palin.
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The pattern began with Facebook's 2016 announcement that it would partner with third-party fact-checkers to flag false information on the platform.
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Because these are small companies, public information can be limited, making it easier for scammers to give investors false information, the SEC says.
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In fact, it took the truth about six times as long as false information to reach 214 people on Twitter, the researchers estimate.
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In fact, it took the truth about six times as long as false information to reach 123 people on Twitter, the researchers estimate.
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Facebook rejected that demand, prompting the Singapore government to say the social media giant could not be relied on to filter false information.
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Crews and Hoehn have each been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and providing false information to law enforcement.
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It's also easy for people with an agenda to put out tempting false information to try to trick you into making a mistake.
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Sites like Facebook promote confirmation bias, encourage echo chambers, spread false information, and enable malicious state actors to interfere with other nations' politics.
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"One of the challenges was in blocking certain individuals, if they used false information," said Ian Tong, Doctor on Demand's chief medical officer.
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They weaponized our social media feeds, employed content farms to create fake news, and used bots to disseminate false information and Russian propaganda.
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"Sorry you feel that way," she typed to one, and explained that, instead of banning pages that peddle false information, Facebook demotes them.
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As a university student, I have witnessed adults spew false information and obviously biased talking points, that were refutable within seconds of research.
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It's ironic that the Trump administration would accuse Russia of spreading false information considering the debt the president seemingly owes to Russian propagandists.
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In April 2016, the man who made the original 911 call was cleared of making false alarms and providing police with false information.
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All four Americans entered the country between February 11 and 12, providing false information that they were tourists, the Bahrain Interior Ministry said.
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Crews and Hoehn were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and providing false information to law enforcement.
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In other words, JASTA will not only be catastrophic for US foreign policy, but it is based on utterly misleading and false information.
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"The falsified official documents and the false information he fabricated are sensational and outrageous," the ministry said in a rare English-language statement.
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"With this hashtag, they want to influence the conversation, to change trends, insert false information, and mitigate... criticism [of] the government," Natera explained.
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Social media companies, including Twitter rival Facebook Inc face growing pressure to stop carrying ads that spread false information that could influence elections.
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Lying to Congress is a crime, and if Trump tries to spin facts or gives false information, he would commit an impeachable offense.
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Social media companies, including Twitter rival Facebook Inc face growing pressure to stop carrying ads that spread false information that could influence elections.
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He also faces two charges about giving false information to U.S. officials over his ties to Islamic State and being provided weapons training.
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Trump himself constantly provides false information on threat, arguing—against all available evidence—that immigrants are disproportionately committing crimes in the United States.
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Social media companies, including Twitter rival Facebook Inc face growing pressure to stop carrying ads that spread false information that could steer elections.
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The affidavit states that after Ryan bought her insurance based on false information, she then filed a fraudulent insurance claim the next day.
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There are still strong libel laws and if someone publishes false information with no regard to the truth, they should be held accountable.
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Val Demings of Florida focused her line of questioning on how false information affected Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Eddie Williams Jr., 43, is being charged with entering without breaking, conspiracy and giving false information to law enforcement, the sheriff's office said.
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In a combative White House press conference on Monday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused some journalists of "purposely" putting out false information.
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This protection against liability for filing lawsuits with false information could encourage collection attorneys to file even more inaccurate lawsuits against innocent consumers.
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Indian media reported on Monday that the government had asked the company to suspend eight accounts accused of spreading false information about Kashmir.
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Of those, 20 sites used "deceptive" activity displays by using strategies like random number generators to provide false information, according to the study.
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Until recently, Amazon had not faced as much scrutiny as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for the spread of false information on the web.
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Russia believes that by disseminating enough false information about the most inflammatory areas of American politics, it can sow chaos in the system.
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What the research shows is that, in terms of sex education, more (and accurate) information is always better than less (and false) information.
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WhatsApp, which is the most popular app in India, continues to grapple with the spread of false information in the nation, for instance.
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A report commissioned by European lawmakers has called for more transparency from online platforms to help combat the spread of false information online.
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Some wondered what would happen if a hacker took control and began tweeting false information about security threats, political alliances, or even war.
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To say otherwise perpetuates false information that has plagued policy in this country for decades and made it impossible to affect real change.
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The false information sent to the State Department was related to defense products or services, but the company did not say which kind.
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I feel like people are definitely getting false information about coronavirus, thus making them think the way they do as to the coronavirus.
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With Europe's next major election set to take place in Italy on Sunday, fears that false information could mislead voters have again surfaced.
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In the case of a price tracker app, Kolochenko said, someone could feed a high-volume trader false information to influence their behaviour.
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The panic surrounding technology's power to spread false information has only grown since the 2016 election, when "fake news" became a household term.
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The memo also mentions that other transition team members "publicly repeated false information conveyed to them" by Flynn about his contacts with Kislyak.
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They are a poor use of time for most of the participants and, worse, have repeatedly served up confusing and even false information.
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For instance, he said, Facebook, Twitter and Google are adding new policies to combat false information, fake accounts and nefarious foreign political advertising.
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Later, in his memoir, Mr. McClellan delivered a mea culpa, admitting that he had been given false information to disseminate to the press.
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Facebook has invested in prevention of the spread of fake news and Russia has been accused of spreading false information to influence elections.
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Facebook and Google have tens of thousands of content moderators to root out hate speech and false information on their sites, for example.
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A study of 100,000 WhatsApp images that were widely shared in Brazil found that more than half contained misleading or flatly false information.
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It would also allow the government to jail journalists who publish what it terms to be false information for up to five years.
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However, some people had now targeted rural areas where they were spreading false information about the attacks to instigate mob violence, he said.
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At least eight people were arrested in China, accused of "publishing or forwarding false information on the internet without verification" about the coronavirus.
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Other types of advertisements are subject to a third-party fact checking process that can result in a warning label for false information.
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BRF then sold the meat in 10 Brazilian states, and provided false information to authorities to hide that decision, according to the police.
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Back in February, Mueller handed down his major indictment of 13 Russians for actively interfering with the 2016 election by spreading false information.
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In a series of hypotheticals, Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg whether she could run ads with false information concerning her proposed Green New Deal.
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Without acknowledging the times the president or administration officials have relayed false information, Mr. Mulvaney suggested people should be leery of news accounts.
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Before the post goes live, they'll see a notice that fact checkers say it contains false information, with a link to more information.
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Kuwait's state news agency said its Twitter account was hacked and used to spread false information about US troops withdrawing from the country.
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YouTube told Recode that false information generally does not violate the platform's rules unless it involves hate speech, harassment, scams, or inciting violence.
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The FBI monitored social media accounts on Election Day to track Russian efforts to spread damaging false information about candidates, CNN reported Friday.
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Clearly, false information seems like an easy thing to ax outright, which I imagine Facebook will try to do in the near future.
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"Investigations revealed that the suspect was believed to have sent the false information...to cause unnecessary alarm," the police said in a statement.
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In addition, Google is working with top YouTuber's like John Green and Ingrid Nilsen to further educate younger readers about false information online.
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And more importantly, we should all be able to correct false information before losing access to potential employment, insurance, housing or credit opportunities.
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A CNN search on Facebook's archived advertisement website found that several groups that promote false information about vaccines are advertising on the site.
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"The American people, especially your viewers, need to realize they were given false information about the FBI," Comey told Fox News' Chris Wallace.
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The examples provided by the act's drafters are attacking a straw man — an individual who provides false information, knowing it to be false.
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A Volkswagen executive accused of knowingly providing false information to regulators in the U.S., where he was based, has agreed to plead guilty.
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"Facebook's malfeasance when it comes to trafficking in blatantly false information is a national crisis in this respect," Schultz said in a statement.
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Providing false information to a bank to get a loan can lead to charges of bank fraud or conspiracy, according to legal experts.
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FINRA said Bocchino's sales assistant at Morgan Stanley, Rafael Barela Jacinto, was suspended for a year for creating firm documents containing false information.
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Yes. Some on Twitter found Zuckerberg's point that Holocaust deniers do not intend to impart false information and cause damage was, um, problematic.
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At the end of the day, withholding information, disseminating false information, or barring people from sourcing their own information is all dangerous practice.
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But there is a gaping hole in its defenses: While, for instance, bots pushing misinformation in a coordinated way (think of one person controlling 100 Twitter bot accounts pushing false information) are against Twitter's rules, objectively false information shared by regular users -- say, individual anonymous accounts claiming that the biggest city in America is about to go into lockdown, are not.
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While Putin himself largely steers clear of direct involvement, Kremlin-linked media outlets have become relentless pushers of conspiracy theories and otherwise false information.
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The problem is the people most likely to be convinced by false information are unlikely to be the same people buying and reading newspapers.
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"The M.O. seems to be the same, which is to potentially manipulate the market by providing false information for their own benefit," Williams said.
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" Russian officials have denied that narrative and accused the US of disseminating false information to "demoralize the Venezuelan army" and conduct an "information war.
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Less than 20 percent of users clarified the false information with a new tweet, and less than 10 percent bothered to delete the tweet.
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As of Friday, Pai had not been in touch with several lawmakers to whom he provided false information over the past year, Gizmodo reported.
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The latter would require Trump to prove that the Times knowingly published false information about him — a very tough requirement to overcome in court.
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After all, in order for one to find false information surprising, they likely already have the knowledge that is being contradicted as a foundation.
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If you're looking for good news about the future of false information on the internet, please close this little post and continue your search.
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It would be illegal for Netflix to report false information in their earnings letter, but still, Landgraf says viewers aren't getting the full story.
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As with Crews, he faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit kidnapping as well as providing false information to police.
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Following a riot last month, Indonesia restricted the usage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in an attempt to contain the flow of false information.
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Stephen Hudak, a spokesman for the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, said any title companies or purchasers who provided false information could face penalties.
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In fact, earlier in April, parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for spreading false information.
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Manafort's lead attorney Kevin Downing argued that false information about Manafort had spread in the media, and Ellis asked him to elaborate on that.
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"When you have someone like Sean Hannity putting out false information and the President tweeting it, it makes a difference," Zaid told CNN Business.
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False information continues to be a problem on Google and Facebook — but the released ads suggest the Russian operations weren't about information at all.
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The social network announced earlier this month that it would allow politicians to run ads on its platform even if they include false information.
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Instead, Hoehn pleaded guilty to two lesser charges in the case: kidnapping and providing false information to authorities in their investigation court records show.
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Hariri, in a late night news conference on Monday, said false information had been circulated about the budget and criticized "preemptive" strikes over it.
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Donovon has been investigating the spread of false information shortly after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, on February 14th.
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CNN's analysis also counted situations where false information was shared yet Mueller didn't always make clear whether the person intended to give bad information.
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" Johnson called on Wray to speak to the accuracy of the story, telling the FBI director that, "We don't want false information out there.
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However, surveillance video later allegedly discredited Ebron's story and authorities charged him with child neglect and giving false information, the Florida Times-Union reports.
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So Negan set a trap of his own, feeding Dwight the false information with the hope that it would get passed along to Rick.
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DIGENOVA: The source in London was another person who was feeding false information to George Papadopoulos and others about collusion, which did not exist.
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Across the aisle, Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid told the Huffington Post that Trump should be given false information at his briefing.
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Many thoughtful people are upset that Russian trolls took advantage of Facebook and Twitter to disseminate false information, whether as advertising or fake news.
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Regulators in Kenya, Malaysia and South Africa have mooted the idea of holding moderators of group chats liable for false information in their groups.
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Smollett has a record — one that concerns giving false information to police when he was pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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Another woman surnamed Liu was also arrested for allegedly disrupting social order by spreading false information about the alleged kindergarten abuse, Chaoyang police said.
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According to the New York Post , Turner even went so far as to create multiple, since-deleted websites with false information about his persona.
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Subordinates at the DIA reportedly compiled a list of what they called "Flynn facts" —nuggets of false information that Flynn would present as true.
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The men were charged with spreading false information harmful to national security, two security sources familiar with the incident said, on condition of anonymity.
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On the other hand, HIV/AIDS affects an estimated 34 million people globally, and is still shrouded in stigma as well as false information.
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CHP investigators determined Rodman was the SUV driver but when they eventually spoke to him he gave false information about the incident, prosecutors said.
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In response, WhatsApp — which is of course owned by Facebook — has bought full-page newspaper ads to warn about false information on its service.
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This election season saw a coarsening of public discourse, with candidates and their campaigns obscuring the truth and, in some instances, releasing false information.
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As the spread of deliberately misleading and false information has become more prevalent, lawmakers have threatened to step in to legislate against the problem.
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The stories reported by the sites included false information about turmoil in the inner circle of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, according to the report.
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Critics suggested Manafort was feeding false information to Mueller in order to get back in the president's good graces and angle for a pardon.
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Carson came in fourth place, but Trump and other critics questioned whether Cruz's campaign staffers spreading the false information could have boosted his score.
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Not only is the hoax pushing false information, it's missing the point: You already granted Facebook and Instagram those permissions when you signed up.
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In 2015, France's data-protection agency CNIL ordered Google to remove global search listings of pages containing damaging or false information about a person.
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But if you're in the news business, which you are, you've got to do it right and this is false information you are spreading.
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Campaigners say this can be difficult as victims sometimes provide false information, because they are afraid that traffickers may hurt them or their families.
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The attack was announced by a former senior official who had previously leaked false information about a "attack" against the FCC that never happened.
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Kelly listed some of the accusations of Russian interference made by Mueller's office and other U.S. officials, including the spreading of false information online.
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The big picture: Getting the most pushback from the interview is Zuckerberg's opinion that Facebook doesn't necessarily have the responsibility to remove false information.
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"There is a lot of false information in the market being shared by competitors and others," the company told Business Insider in a statement.
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He was accused by the Police Department of including false information in a sworn affidavit for a warrant to search a house in Brooklyn.
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An Indonesian anti-hoax group called Mafindo honored Mr. Sutopo in October for his efforts to combat the spread of false information during disasters.
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On Sunday, the prime minister, Mr. Wickremesinghe, warned the public not to believe what he described as false information circulating online about the bombings.
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Facebook on Monday labeled a video shared by President Donald Trump as "partly false information" after the Joe Biden campaign called out the company.
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Fighting misinformation: Facebook has found that it's more effective to identify and boot fake accounts than to try to restrict false information, Zuckerberg said.
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Russia, the document says, is at risk of attacks on systems of "information support for democratic institutions" and the spread of harmful, false information.
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The law the banks violated prohibits sharing false information regarding companies' services, actions that can harm clients, delaying compensation payments among some other details.
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Individuals deemed to have maliciously spread false information on the web damaging to the public interest face jail terms of up to 10 years.
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Hampton told BuzzFeed News that he spends very little money boosting the ads with false information and typically only micro-targets journalists on Facebook.
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What's more, Facebook's design tends to obscure the sources of inflammatory and false content, and fails to adequately punish those who spread false information.
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Parnas and Fruman were charged on Thursday with four counts, including conspiracy, falsification of records and providing false information to the Federal Election Commission.
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Facebook took a lenient policy of accepting political ads even if they contain false information, while Twitter imposed a ban on political ads altogether.
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These interference issues have been ongoing, as thousands of Twitter accounts spreading false information remained active in the weeks ahead of the U.S. midterms.
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Providing false information in order to get a bank loan can constitute bank fraud or conspiracy to commit bank fraud, according to former prosecutors.
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Frisiello was arrested Thursday morning and is facing 5 counts of mailing a threat to injure, and 5 counts of false information and hoaxes.
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In Britain, the BBC is starting a project to help secondary school pupils to identify real news and filter out fake or false information.
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"Posting blatantly false information on the EPA's website would violate the Information Quality Act," said Romany Webb, a climate law fellow at Columbia University.
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On Tuesday, Patrick Elliott, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was charged with murder, providing false information and use of a firearm in connection with the Aug.
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This means that Instagram wants to curtail false information about vaccines, but not ban people who identify as anti-vaxers or publish anti-vaccine posts.
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" In Europe, the right to remove irrelevant or false information from your search results is enshrined in the law as "the right to be forgotten.
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His work, in partnership with aid charity Rescue Global, helps the organization filter through false information following disasters to deliver aid to the right places.
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He spreads false information, conspiracy theories and outrageous accusations to confuse public debate, direct the national media focus and undermine the legitimacy of his opponents.
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No one begrudges her for having had false information and it&aposs not even a big deal whether the president dictated this letter or not.
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Crews, shackled and soft-spoken, pleaded guilty to three charges: conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder and giving false information to the police.
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Crisis pregnancy centers are organizations that counsel women against having abortions, often posing as actual medical clinics and frequently dispensing false information about reproductive health.
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His lawyers argued Monday that the government failed to show banks relied on the allegedly false information that prosecutors say Manafort provided to prospective lenders.
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When the work in Ukraine dried up, prosecutors claim Manafort applied for bank loans based on false information about his net worth, assets, and debts.
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As part of a wider investigation, a judge last year recommended the Supreme Court indict Casado for providing false information to get his Master's degree.
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The trolls began posting false information about the El Paso gunman's identity before the public even knew how many people had died in the attack.
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There is no call to vote for a given candidate, and despite widespread concerns over fake news, there's no clear effort to spread false information.
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The former NBA player was also charged with driving across a dividing section and without a valid license as well as giving police false information.
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They are under increasing attention and criticism for the role they play in spreading false information, especially as it relates to elections and political discourse.
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Yes, like all of us, Berners-Lee is confounded with the problem of online communication and social bubbles creating a ripe landscape for false information.
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The Taliban were feeding us false information and baiting us into places that we shouldn&apost have gone, and missions that weren&apost properly vetted.
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One editor explained that disinformation refers to an intentional effort to spread lies; misinformation is the spreading of false information with or without that intent.
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On a few occasions, Mueller couldn't determine the truth, but outlines how at least one person among a group must have been giving false information.
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Kraft's attorneys have argued, in part, that the video evidence is inadmissible because police gave false information to the judge who granted the search warrant.
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It said a number of public disturbances have been reported in the country due to false information in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings.
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A smaller 8% of that category thinks that it's okay for organizations or individuals to have bots spread made-up news or false information online.
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The court ruled that these emails did not contain any defamatory information or false information, but rather factually accurate information about her and Shivers' situation.
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Since Trump's recirculating of the story, it has inspired an avalanche of new, unsubstantiated reports that are causing confusion and the spread of false information.
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"We know people don't want to see false information at the top of their News Feed," said Tessa Lyons, the head of News Feed Integrity.
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There's a lot — I don't want to use the word fake news — but there's a lot of false information out there in the zeitgeist, online.
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They apparently "uploaded false information" during Facebook live sessions last year when they stated, truthfully, that the junta had been poaching MPs from other parties.
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A court in Dhaka ordered him to be confined for seven days for questioning on charges of spreading false information and propaganda against the government.
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"We've had problems with people going on there and putting false information on there, so we've had to keep an eye on it," Stewart said.
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The President of the United States made a statement and posted a tweet that helped spread completely false information against one of his political opponents.
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But Bradley's attorney tells TMZ Sports he adamantly denies all wrongdoing -- and only entered into the agreement to prevent false information from being made public.
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Both suspects are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and providing false information to law enforcement, according to authorities.
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In the U.S., it was just revealed that the FBI was monitoring fake social media accounts that were potentially spreading false information on Election Day.
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The company is relying on information from the World Health Organization and other organizations that have debunked "scientifically false" information about vaccines in the past.
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But EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy contended that, though they could have acted faster, her staffers were provided with false information from the state of Michigan.
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With President Trump, leaks are also a way to counteract the ongoing barrage of misleading or false information that is coming from the White House.
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FitzPatrick pleaded not guilty to all 27 charges, including providing misleading, false or deceptive statement to auditors Ernst & Young (EY) and for furnishing false information.
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A far graver danger would be if a president were to be elected based on false information or information that was widely misunderstood by voters.
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Facebook has begun rating the credibility of its users as part of its effort to weed out the spread of false information on the platform.
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Facebook has tweaked its algorithms to discourage the spreading of false information, but its policies generally prevent the platform from taking many disinformation campaigns down.
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False information, it seems, was provided to both UK authorities and banks in order to conceal the true identities of the people behind the scheme.
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They are both charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and providing false information to police in connection with LaFontaine-Greywind's Aug.
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Compared with regulation aimed at holding companies responsible for spreading false information, the advertising bill ought to be fairly painless for tech companies to accept.
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Users will now be able to designate posts as "false information" when they click on the button in the top right-hand corner of posts.
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Their questionable relevance raises the possibility that they were motivated by someone with a different agenda who perhaps fed false information to the former spy.
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Earlier this year, the FCC admitted that its maps were inaccurate because one internet service provider gave the agency false information about its broadband coverage.
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"False information is being propagated," declared one, insisting that the facility's control systems could not be hacked because they were not connected to the internet.
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While not related to any government cover-ups, the image, painted more than 60 years after the Revolutionary War, is famously full of false information.
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While the coronavirus is an issue everyone in the world should be taking seriously, the spread of false information can be both dangerous and deadly.
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Instead, Facebook warns people that post it along with users that see the post, that the post contains false information, citing third-party fact checkers.
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For years, the site distributed false information that inspired internet trolls to harass people who were close to victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
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But Justice Fux pointed to the American election as a cautionary tale about what can happen if there is no effort to check false information.
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Those lawyers told the Washington Post they posted the video to YouTube in the "spirit of transparency" and to prove Jones knowingly pushed false information.
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In a statement, Facebook said it had not hidden its ties to Definers and disputed that it had asked the firm to spread false information.
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I don't think they want to give any kind of deadline or any kind of linear timeline for this because it could be false information.
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The false information and political advertisements that the Russians are accused of spreading could ring true only to those already predisposed to suspect the worst.
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"So as to avoid the spread of misinformation, HR should endeavor to ensure that employees aren't sharing false information or gossiping about others," she said.
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The first promise her plan makes is that her campaign will not spread false information, and she calls on her rivals to do the same.
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Facebook is home to many propaganda groups that push completely false information and conspiracy theories about vaccinations and medication on scared, vulnerable people seeking help.
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Facebook was then called out for this in a political ad containing false information that was posted on Facebook by Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained defiant in a "CBS This Morning" interview airing Monday on the social media giant posting political ads containing false information.
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Some of the people he has chosen to follow have been found inciting violence and spreading false information on numerous occasions, according to several analysts.
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Sullivan, held that public officials had to show that news organizations had knowingly published false information or had acted with "reckless disregard" for the truth.
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However, users aren't prevented from posting false (or potentially false) information on the site, and there's no visible indication that the original post is fake.
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Russia spreads false information, like the story — that never took place — of a German schoolgirl's gang-rape by Muslims, or Obama's supposed birth in Africa.
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PPF said in a statement that it appeared Rubio was relying on "false information" from a Czech politician and disputed his characterization of CME's market.
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PPF said in a statement that it appeared Rubio was relying on "false information" from a Czech politician and disputed his characterization of CME's market.
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Facebook has had to answer — at times in front of congressional committees — for false information spread on its platform leading up to the 2016 election.
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That false information got sent along in the FBI's documentation behind its FISA application, and the attorney allegedly changed his story when investigators questioned him.
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Facebook said in January that it will try to delete, or at least decrease the reach of, posts peddling false information on Instagram and Facebook.
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While at times highly skilled at planting false information and creating confusion, "they often burn themselves while trying to burn down the house," he said.
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"The stakes of this election are too high -- we need to fight the spread of false information that disempowers voters and undermines democracy," Warren said.
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The firm's strategy to feed Henry false information through Maia is undercut after Mike finds out that the Travis Leopold plan is a complete fiction.
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Facebook notified people who had shared the video that it contained false information, and a link to the fact-check appeared next to the video.
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It posted a long rebuttal accusing The Journal of using "false information" and a pattern of biased reporting, though it did not substantiate those allegations.
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His organization, InfoWars, spreads demonstrably false information and conspiracy theories on a host of issues, including claiming that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
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"As part of the scheme, Manafort and Gates repeatedly provided false information to financial bookkeepers, tax accountants and legal counsel, among others," the indictment said.
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Several companies have been harshly criticized in recent months for their role in spreading false information during the 2016 election, and exploiting users' personal data.
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Examples might include: A Facebook account spreading false information about a candidate for office, or impersonating a candidate A Twitter post attempting to confuse voters by sharing false information about the election process (for example, by advertising the wrong Election Day, or promoting nonexistent voter ID requirements) A YouTube channel or Instagram account that uses doctored or selectively edited videos or images to mislead voters about a candidate or issue A disinformation-based smear campaign against a candidate being organized on Reddit or 22Chan, or in a private Facebook group A text message with false information to impersonate a candidate or confuse voters Sketchy digital campaign ads.
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Now several voters have brought a lawsuit seeking to remove her from the ballot suggesting she allegedly gave false information about her residency to election officials.
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But a lawsuit from three voters bankrolled by her primary opponent, Matt Heinz, claims she gave false information to election officials about her place of residency.
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When publicly available information is scarce, fraudsters can more easily spread false information about a company, making profits for themselves while creating losses for unsuspecting investors.
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Scott's performance just got even more complicated, though, as evidence surfaces that sources close to him maybe shared false information regarding his relationship with Colin Kaepernick.
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He also admitted to giving a ticket vendor false information to convince them to pay $2 million for a block of advance tickets for the festival.
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And we haven't even covered the category of human users pretending to be someone else on social media for malicious purposes, such as spreading false information.
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The manipulated material seems to be part of an effort to taint my character with false information by distorting a blog that ended a decade ago.
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An agency official said that the regulator was watching out for possible deceptive practices involving the trade of Jeil shares, including inducing investors through false information.
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When he continues to traffic in false statements about massive voter fraud, he demonstrates his willingness to circulate false information from the highest levels of power.
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In the new indictment, Manafort is accused of submitting false information in connection with loan applications and committing other fraud between December 123 and January 2017.
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On Wednesday, a judge said he believed that the workers filed the NHRC complaint against the Thammakaset chicken farm in "good faith", and without false information.
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Apple's Safari, one of the internet's most popular web browsers, has been surfacing debunked conspiracies, shock videos, and false information via its "Siri Suggested Websites" feature.
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By the time the enemy has scrambled to address the outrage or debunk false information, the pro-Trump media has moved on to the next microscandal.
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If any judges are working on them, I want your workers to tell them they should be rejected/dismissed because they were containing very false information.
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Reading this, it's not difficult to understand why it's so hard for fact checkers to address false information before it's widely distributed in Facebook's News Feed.
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But Mr. Trump has questioned those conclusions and suggested, without evidence, that hostile American officials may have planted false information that led to the Russia inquiry.
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OPTHALMOLOGIST REBUKED Ophthalmologist Li was among eight people reprimanded by police in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, for spreading "illegal and false" information.
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This network created what Facebook called "inauthentic accounts," which in turn liked publisher pages, with the intention of spreading spam to users or distributed false information.
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Sometimes, though, the people behind the spread of false information are the same ones vying for people's votes when Nigerians head to the polls Feb. 16.
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The initial limits were prompted by a series of mob attacks and killings in India, set off by the spread of false information about child kidnappings.
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WhatsApp didn't immediately disclose any data on whether it had seen a substantial decline in the spread of false information by reducing the limit to five.
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False information online is bad, it can increase polarization, have a toxic impact on political discourse, and it can and has resulted in violence (think Myanmar).
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The move comes as WhatsApp grapples with challenges such as spam behavior to push agendas or spread false information on its messaging service in some markets.
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All the while, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tied himself itself into knots to justify why Jones was allowed to knowingly spread false information on the platform.
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Keoughan made an initial appearance on Monday in U.S. District Court on a charge of threatening and conveying false information about the use of an explosive.
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He also faces two charges about providing false information to U.S. officials concerning his ties to Islamic State and being provided weapons training, the complaint said.
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The woman, Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and giving false information to the police.
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In court documents, his attorneys allege that investigators provided false information in the affidavit to obtain a warrant for the sting, thus making the video inadmissible.
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What these examples suggest is that there is a large infrastructure in place that allows conservative media to circulate and disseminate false information framed as fact.
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"I think he was very much misinterpreted and I think he was given false information," Trump said Thursday night at a town hall hosted by CNN.
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The Pew Research Centre had previously estimated that more than half of the 21.7 million public comments submitted to the FCC appeared to include false information.
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The criticism has pissed off fellow Turkish NBA player Hedo Turkoglu who blasted Kanter in the media ... saying Enes is spreading false information to damage Erdogan.
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Otway says that the new user reports will be used to help train Instagram's AI technology that could eventually automatically detect some kinds of false information.
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Anti-fake news legislation, which would impose fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for spreading false information, is under consideration in the Philippines.
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Macron filed a complaint with prosecutors in Paris that accused unknown actors of "spreading false information" in an attempt to influence the outcome of the election.
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In a blog post announcing the change, Editor in Chief Lydia Polgreen noted that too many open platforms can lead to more noise and false information.
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Greek yogurt giant Chobani filed a lawsuit Monday against right-wing radio host Alex Jones, accusing the conspiracy theorist of publishing false information about the company.
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The DOJ said Kadar made a call to police in Macon, Ga., last January in which he detailed false information about a nonexistent emergency situation there.
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Barriss was charged with conveying false information and hoaxes, cyberstalking, threatening to kill another or damage property by fire, and transmitting interstate threats, the indictment said.
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There is a long history of false information shaping women's health law and policy — part of a broader push to curtail women's reproductive rights in America.
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On Monday morning, Crews pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder as well as giving false information to police.
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In a bid to cut down on the spread of false information and spam, WhatsApp recently added labels that indicate when a message has been forwarded.
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Sanders, when asked again about making falsehoods from the White House, said: "I would always advise against giving false information as a person of human decency."
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If they blatantly publish false information they should be exposed for the lies but a private company should not be the gate keeper for political speech.
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As a news consumer, I'd like to see this happen in an effective and timely manner, so that the false information has a short digital lifespan.
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The companies have resisted calls from some journalists to do more to remove news stories containing deliberately false information from their platforms, citing freedom of speech.
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Having served in the KGB and as director of Russia's security service the FSB, President Vladimir Putin specializes in delivering false information to deceive public opinion.
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Others might find themselves in the waiting room of a health center providing them with false information, or flat-out denying them the care they're seeking.
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President Donald Trump is "the worst perpetrator of false information" in the United States, according to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion.
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In July, Trump announced on Twitter that transgender troops would be banned from the US military, citing false information about transgender soldier's impact on their units.
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Flynn now contends he relied on attorneys' advice when filing the lobbying paperwork with the Justice Department and that he did not knowingly file false information.
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A seller's broker should not include false information in a listing, and could be held liable for making false representation, whether it was intentional or not.
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SL: Well, everything that went down encompasses a lot, but Facebook did have responsibility for allowing a lot of false information to circulate on its platform.
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First, the effects of exposure to false information are not easily countered by labeling, as they find in a paper they wrote with Tyrone D. Cannon.
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Jack Posobiec, a right-wing provocateur with a track record for disseminating false information, was one of a few prominent Trump supporters who embraced the decision.
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"What really saddened me the most was to see those people bringing their children, giving them lessons in hate, feeding them false information," he said. Sgt.
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Those actions can include feeding them false information, using them to find out who they communicate with back in the US — or killing or imprisoning them.
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"I had unknowingly passed along false information," Mr. McClellan wrote, adding that five of the highest-ranking White House officials, including the president, had misinformed him.
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Tech giants have been grappling with how to combat disinformation, after Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election became a template for spreading false information online.
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They were markedly different from other public pronouncements about the virus he has made recently, where he's sought to downplay the impact while giving false information.
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Not comfortable with the flood of false information that's allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users' privacy.
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Government officials said at the time that modern rules were needed, otherwise circulation of false information and other misuse of internet platforms would continue to flourish.
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Bad actors are sharing false information on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, but all participants in the meeting remained quiet on their internal efforts.
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Instagram announced in December that it was rolling out a false information warning feature that used third-party fact-checkers to reduce the spread of misinformation.
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Without elaborating, the ex-auto exec also said Japanese prosecutors had leaked false information to the media and concealed evidence that would have helped his case.
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Representatives questioned Facebook&aposs decision to fact-check rather than remove false information published on its platform, as well as loopholes in its ban on deepfakes.
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Every social media company Recode reached said they were working to reduce the impact of false information about the coronavirus in some way, to varying extents.
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They can also order companies such as Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) — both of which opposed the bill — to block accounts or sites spreading false information.
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While my behavior was inexcusable, sometimes when people are coming at you with false information and allegations, we handle ourselves in ways that we sometimes regret.
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At issue is a series of ads run by law firms on Facebook that the letter says contain false information about the HIV-prevention drug Truvada.
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are largely united in trying to take down certain kinds of false information, such as targeted attempts to drive down voter turnout.
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The fraud offenses included lying to labor officials about his H.I.V. status, providing false information to the police and using forged degree certificates in job applications.
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If those allegations turn out to be false, research shows that many viewers will still be influenced by the false information even after stories are debunked.
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In the Maryland case, two men were indicted in federal court on charges including conspiracy and false information and hoax, which could lead to prison time.
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The Saudis later said the attack had been based on false information, but the debacle prompted the Obama administration to block a transfer of precision weapons.
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Today, their main focus is to discredit the news media, often by uncovering potentially harmful information about journalists or by tricking them into reporting false information.
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Internet regulation: Britain has proposed sweeping government powers to fight the online spread of violent and extremist content, false information, and harmful material aimed at children.
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He is personally responsible for the leaking of unmasked information, he was responsible for the sharing of false information to U.S. intelligence sources to get FISA warrants.
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If a story is found to have any false information it will be flagged with a blue button and possibly pushed down on a users' news feed.
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Recent anti-vaxxer movements, based largely on false information, are believed to be contributing to the recent measles outbreak — a disease that was declared eliminated in 2000.
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India has also struggled for years with false information being spread by social media platforms like WhatsApp then triggering riots, communal violence and even leading to deaths.
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The system will supposedly work like this: When a link is shared on Facebook, machine learning algorithms will scan the article for any signs of false information.
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The other is one of the things ... I think we ought to point out when people are disseminating false information on purpose, and why they're doing it.
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We have already begun to see the effects of the intentional and covert dissemination of false information on businesses, even without the added dangers of manipulated videos.
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"The government is committed to tackling false information and the Government Communications Service (GCS) plays a crucial role in this," a Cabinet Office spokesperson told the publication.
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Shahidul Alam, a photographer, was arrested in August for "spreading false information" after speaking out in support of students protesting against unsafe traffic in the capital, Dhaka.
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Gates testified that he was complicit in helping Manafort provide false information to financial services providers and bank lenders, and that he did so at Manafort's direction.
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BuzzFeed News defined "fake news" as news that was verifiably "100 percent false" and drawn from a list of 96 websites purposely created to disseminate false information.
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How you make sure the communications apps that are also on those phones don't lead to the same problems in terms of false information spreading, or polarization?
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That means there might still be nearly 14,000 accounts sharing out false information without a correction — something you can stop from happening by deleting the offending tweet.
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False information about the virus is being distributed around the world, including suggestions that garlic, sesame oil and vitamin C can kill this particular strain of coronavirus.
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Following widespread criticism of the way its service is used to spread false information and news in India, WhatsApp has hired a "grievance officer" for the country.
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It seems almost a foregone conclusion that foreign powers or other bad actors will try to use social media to spread false information and influence political campaigns.
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"If the admin was directly involved or allowed false information to spread intentionally, he will be punished," said Johari Gilani, the deputy minister of communications and multimedia.
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"Yes, there is concern of doxxing and spreading of false information about people to cost them their careers," an unidentified administrator of the group's Facebook page said.
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The big picture: Social media companies are taking hits from every direction for allowing hate speech, false information and now fake video to mushroom on their sites.
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Trump doesn't just oppose comprehensive immigration reform like his fellow GOPers, he vilifies immigrants for political gain and proposes outrageous solutions based on absurd and false information.
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In France Emmanuel Macron frustrated Russian hackers by planting fake e-mails among real ones, which discredited later leaks when they were shown to contain false information.
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You then read a statement supposedly describing the event, and a few bits of false information are put in, ones that were not in the original scene.
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Previously, that content was left up as it didn't directly violate WordPress' Terms of Service, which doesn't state how to deal with false information on the platform.
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And a recent investigation by The Guardian found that Facebook and YouTube's algorithms are largely pushing users toward false information when they look for content about vaccines.
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While the word has been around since the late 1500s, it made a huge comeback last year as the amount of false information on the internet expanded.
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You know, they use whether it&aposs using false information to obtain -- you know, warrants or turning -- you know, trusted advisers and despised against you -- against you.
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" Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, speaking to CNN's Becky Anderson Tuesday, said a Saudi Arabian statement accusing his country of terrorism was "full of false information.
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At the same time, another "anonymous source" leaked to The New York Times the false information that the Republican National Committee's computer systems had also been hacked.
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Additionally, anti-fake news legislation, which would impose fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for spreading false information, is under consideration in the Philippines.
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Shahnaz is accused of obtaining credit cards and a loan using false information and using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder the money on behalf of ISIS.
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Police arrested three members of Shafik's Egyptian National Movement on Wednesday and charged them with spreading false information harmful to national security, two security sources told Reuters.
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Corsi has essentially admitted giving false information to the Mueller team, but claimed that he did so due to a bad memory, not due to intentional lying.
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McCabe himself previously provided false information to the DOJ, for which he was unceremoniously fired, rendering any statements he now makes while promoting his book highly suspect.
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Zuckerberg defended Facebook's decision to continue running political ads, even those that include false information, telling analysts that defending free expression is an important role of Facebook.
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We definitely slipped up on some stories, putting out false information (for example, on a Grenada invasion), but a high premium was placed on getting it right.
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In the filing in New York, Avenatti responded to claims from Cohen's attorneys that Avenatti spread false information and had no right to publicize his bank records.
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House lawmakers said earlier this month that Dillon may have given false information to government ethics officials about payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump. 62.
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More than half of those surveyed — 57 percent — blame political leaders and staff for spreading false information, while 53 percent said activists were responsible for the problem.
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Russia's efforts included directing cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), leveraging social media to spread false information and trying to probe voting infrastructure in 21 states.
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Bits Social media has been in the glare since the election for its perceived harmful qualities, such as the spreading of hate speech and the false information.
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The law lays the ground for investigation and prosecution of computer and cybercrimes including cyber-harassment and "publication of false information", a statement from the presidency said.
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If elections are "full of fake news and false information and distractions, then the issue is not going to be what's happening on the outside," he added.
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And then they utilized our own FBI to go after Americans by using a [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] FISA court with false information that ... they paid for.
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Facebook instituted a global ban on false information about when and where to vote in 2016, but Monday's move goes further, including posts about exaggerated identification requirements.
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Sean Patrick Keoughan, 29, of Roanoke, Virginia, was charged with threatening and conveying false information about the use of an explosive, according to the US attorney's office.
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The platforms were blocked to prevent "social unrest via hate messages and false information," Nalaka Kaluwewa, director general of the country's Department of Government Information, told CNN.
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" GFI publicly responded, "There are a small handful of tenants in the building that are spreading false information in order to attempt to get large buyout payments.
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One of Paul Manafort's accountants admitted Friday she may have committed a crime by filing tax returns for him that she thought contained false information, Politico reports.
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Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, Democrat of New Jersey, said lawmakers may need to come up with new ways to combat false information and fight back against Russia.
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A spokesperson for CVS did not say how the false information ended up in a CVS staff email or if it came from the viral online post.
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But Russian efforts to sway public opinion by spreading false information have continued, and officials said those efforts are becoming more refined, targeting specific groups of Americans.
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Instagram's struggles in dealing with the anti-vaccine movement might not inspire much confidence in the company's ability to get ahead of false information about the coronavirus.
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Over the weekend, two British artists released a doctored video of Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, as a sly comment on the spread of false information online.
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The company then gave false information to its sales representatives that the drug had less potential for addiction and abuse than other painkillers, the U.S. attorney said.
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During the 2016 presidential election, for example, Russia used fake Facebook ads, Twitter bots, and other means to sow discord among the public and spread false information.
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"The defendant made those false statements while represented by counsel and after receiving an explicit warning that providing false information was a federal offense," the prosecutors wrote.
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His partner, Dr. Ler, was sentenced in November to 24 months in prison for abetting cheating and providing false information to the police and the Health Ministry.
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In the wake of mass shootings, anonymous social media accounts often post images of Mr. Hyde holding firearms, accompanied by false information linking him to the massacre.
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Authors who knowingly submit false information to a journal by omitting required disclosures of conflicts of interest should be prohibited from all future publication in that journal.
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But there is no satisfactory compromise to make when a presidential candidate, and then a president, makes statements that violate policies regarding hate speech and false information.
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Several lawyers and former CIA analysts say no, arguing that the DC institution has padded its most controversial exhibit on interrogation with patently false information and subterfuge.
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Craig was indicted in April on one charge of making false statements in a federal proceeding and another charge of submitting false information in a FARA filing.
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Disinformation on Facebook: The company said it had removed four campaigns supported by Iran and Russia and announced new steps to reduce the spread of false information.
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Facebook came under fire in the closing months of 2019 for its decision to allow politicians to publish false information in paid ads on the social network.
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Even Facebook, which has been widely criticized for allowing politicians to lie, took a hardline position on false information that would suppress a citizen's right to vote.
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Friday's indictments further detailed the operatives' efforts to spread false information during the election process and to organize voters using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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The news media must separate in the public mind responsible journalism from recklessly inaccurate and purposely false information disguised as news for profit or influence by charlatans.
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The revised handbook also includes a special section on how to detect "false information," a reference to propaganda or what has also become known as fake news.
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He says it's much easier for misleading, inflammatory, or false information about this virus to take hold — like the dozens of conspiracy theories blossoming on social media.
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The Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate recently invested in a series of Facebook ads that target both Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg with intentionally false information.
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But the feature is now labeling some digitally manipulated art as false information and hiding photos from digital artists and photographers from the Explore and hashtag pages.
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According to PetaPixel, photographer Toby Harriman spotted the false information warning pop-up on a photo of a man standing in front of some rainbow-colored hills.
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The program quickly found dozens of pages that had put out false information about the election and its candidates in the weeks leading up to the election.
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Manipulating the financial system One of the most dramatic options on the table is tampering with Russia's economy, perhaps by releasing false information or sabotaging financial networks.
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