"Every week we will announce hoax news," he told CNN Indonesia, according to The Guardian newspaper.
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The most contentious one right now is what to do about fake news, or more accurately, hoax news?
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Google and social-media sites such as Facebook were lambasted last year for hosting hoax news articles during the US election.
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One of Sony Music's Twitter accounts was hacked over the Holiday weekend, spreading hoax news that pop star Britney Spears is dead.
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Google has been running hoax news ads on fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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The company that created the system that resulted in hoax news stories should try to eliminate them, and with any luck it will.
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Facebook was facing scrutiny at the time for its role in hoax news stories being disseminated across its platform ahead of the 2016 election.
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The explosion of pay-per-click hoax news stories on social media has made it easier than ever for a bogus claim to go viral.
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Facebook has fielded criticism since the conclusion of the 2016 presidential election over how fake and hoax news stories on its platform may have influenced the race.
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The "Fake News Alert" Chrome extension, created by New York magazine journalist Brian Feldman, joins the B.S. Detector Chrome extension launched Tuesday that identifies hoax news articles on Facebook.
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Facebook is also dealing with criticism over the spread of hoax news stories on its platform, and Russians using it to influence election in the U.S. and other countries.
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A Syrian refugee in Germany is suing Facebook after a picture he took with German Chancellor Angela Merkel was repeatedly used in hoax news reports that accused him of being a terrorist.
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It has pledged to make it harder for hoax news sites to generate ad revenue on the platform and to enable users to better detect which links are from trusted news sources.
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Then, Facebook tried and failed to suppress hoax news sites and propaganda with a series of methods designed to avoid the ire of conservatives, like third-party fact checkers and yet more algorithms.
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The United Kingdom is establishing a new unit to curb the presence of hoax news stories online and stop social media influence campaigns from foreign adversaries, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesperson said.
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Why it matters: Questions of how to regulate social media platforms have been front and center because of the continued reality of online harassment and an election marked in part by hoax news stories.
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A deluge of hoax news incidents, several with fatal consequences, may bolster the Indian government's attempts to get social networks to share more user data so that police can track down those spreading rumors.
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The company took criticism after the rise of "fake news" articles on the platform, which disseminated false and hoax news stories at volumes that in at least some cases exceeded real news on Facebook.
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However, Hannity was held in check by other news outlets and eventually apologized, something you'd never see from a fake news website The proliferation of hoax news sources makes reporting verifiable facts increasingly impossible.
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Recently, he announced hoax news sites will no longer be able to advertise on Facebook and that the company is rolling out verification, reporting, and detection tools to make it easier to spot false stories.
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"Since then, we no longer have had any problems with ad networks and are very happy to be branded as one of the most notorious hoax news/satirical news sites on the internet," he said.
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Critics have accused the social network of allowing false and hoax news stories to run rampant, with some suggesting that Facebook contributed to Donald Trump's election by letting hyper-partisan websites spread false and misleading information.
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Users sharing fake or hoax news stories could use this option to mislead readers, often by altering the headline preview in a way that made other users more likely to click or share the fake story.
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It has the data that will show how much fake or "hoax" news was shared and read on Facebook, or how much of the discussion around the election was about hoax stories, but refuses to release it.
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Back in January 2015, Facebook rolled out an update designed to combat hoax news stories, which demoted links that were heavily flagged as fake by users, and that were often deleted later by users who posted them.
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The move is another step by the world's largest social network to weed out spam, a battle Facebook has fought for years but that gained urgency after hoax news stories spread widely during last year's U.S. presidential campaign.
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One source said high-ranking officials were briefed on a planned News Feed update that would have identified fake or hoax news stories, but disproportionately impacted right-wing news sites by downgrading or removing that content from people's feeds.
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In the U.S., Facebook has faced intense scrutiny over whether it allowed hoax news stories to spread on its platform during the presidential campaign Immediately after the election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed criticisms of his platform's role in the election outcome.
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The controversy comes as Facebook tries to repair its image, following the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, revelations that Russian trolls tried to manipulate its platform to influence U.S. politics and reports about its platform became ground zero for the spread of fake and hoax news stories.
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While the wave of real stories surrounding the role of hoax news stories on social media in the recent presidential election have included stunning revelations, none are as insane as the claims one of the most prolific hoaxers made in a chat with the Washington Post.
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Facebook has come under unprecedented scrutiny in the past few years amid a long series of privacy scandals, accusations it is easily gamed by hoax news sites and malicious political actors, and of failing to act even after repeated warnings its platform was promoting pro-genocide propaganda in Myanmar.
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Facebook has been heavily criticized for failing to crack down on hoax news sites, the dubious viral content producers whose false articles have overwhelmingly favored Republican Donald Trump, provided a decent source of income to Macedonian teenagers, and in some cases are controlled by close allies of Trump himself.
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Facebook is currently festering with controversy surrounding not just the use of its platforms (including subsidiaries like encrypted chat service WhatsApp) to spread hoax news, propaganda, and myriad agitprop for political purposes, but also its handling of user data and ill-advised campaigns against critics like billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros.
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The FPI was among groups circulating hoax news stories on social media during the campaign of a pending invasion of Chinese workers and Chinese plots to decimate Indonesia's crops with contaminated chili The FPI has vowed to stage further protests and a "revolution" if Purnama wins, according to flyers circulated by the group.
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After all, we're living in the era of Pizzagate, a time when outrageous Twitter claims about a child enslavement ring involving Hillary Clinton inspired a man to fire a gun into an unsuspecting pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. Politicians and journalists repeat and retweet hoax news stories on the regular, like one about Syrian refugees being relocated to Navajo reservations, repeated by Sean Hannity and Donald Trump.
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Hoax news (also referred to as fake news) is a news containing facts that are either inaccurate or false but which are presented as genuine. A hoax news conveys a half-truth used deliberately to mislead the public. Hoax may serve the goal of propaganda or disinformation — using social media to drive web traffic and amplify their effect. Unlike news satire, fake news websites seek to mislead, rather than entertain, readers for financial or political gain.
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Hoax news is usually released with the intention of misleading to injure an organization, individual, or person, and/or benefit financially or politically, sometimes utilizing sensationalist, deceptive, or simply invented headlines to maximize readership. Likewise, clickbait reports and articles from this operation gain advertisement revenue.
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The band's style was also changed to Penis Metal. A secondary prank involved the spontaneous deletion of controversial band Meshuggah (whose genre was listed on the site as "technical nu-metal/djent" and later changed to simply "djent"), leading to another series of arguments between moderators on the site's forum, although not to the extent of the 2009 prank. Meshuggah were reinstated the following day. For the 2015 prank a hoax news story was posted "announcing" that the site was no longer free to use and the site was introducing paid membership features.
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The Mission kept in constant contact with the Russian Border Guards and the Government of South Ossetia during the broadcast via the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism hotline to ensure that alert levels remained at the status quo. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, after a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri in Brussels, expressed his concern over the hoax news report and said the European Union is "hopeful that intensive work will continue to consolidate democratic institutions, create an inclusive political culture, and ensure full media freedom." Barroso also called on the Georgian government to refrain from activities which could increase local and regional tensions. NATO spokesman James Appathurai in a briefing in Brussels on 24 March 2010 called the false news report "unwise" and "useless".
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