"There have been hoaxes on the internet, there were hoaxes before," he said.
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We know that people don't want to see hoaxes on Facebook and we don't want to see hoaxes on Facebook.
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"We know that people don't want to see hoaxes on Facebook, and we don't want to see hoaxes on Facebook," Sandberg told Guthrie.
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The tech platforms mostly define fake news as financial hoaxes: Most tech platforms take action on content that leads to false commercialization or "hoaxes," things like diet pill scams or clickbait.
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This ability to spot patterns in hoaxes is particularly useful.
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Hoaxes about Muslims often live on even after being debunked.
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We're tracking the rumors and hoaxes about the Jacksonville shooting.
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Flashback: Hoaxes like this come around every now and again.
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Have any New York hoaxes rivaled that of the clowns?
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Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes.
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BuzzFeed News is keeping a running list of debunked hoaxes.
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That is not the stuff of witch hunts and hoaxes.
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All other reported clown sightings are more accurately clown hoaxes.
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We're surrounded by hoaxes, fake news, spam, malware and...fake apps.
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There were several other hoaxes and dubious claims on Election Day.
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Sometimes, the hoaxes also live on through screenshots, images, and videos.
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Captain Disillusion is a YouTuber best known for debunking viral hoaxes.
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Deutch has slammed Jones for spreading hoaxes involving the Parkland, Fla.
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I follow news reports of pipe bombs, hoaxes, the occasional shooting.
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Contrary to last week's online hoaxes, you can't vote via text.
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Why do people go to the trouble of creating intercultural hoaxes?
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"We are seeing a lot of templated hoaxes right now," Wardle.
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Fact-checkers cannot rebut viral hoaxes and misinformation they cannot see.
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Since the outbreak began, hoaxes about the virus have circulated online.
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But after tense, hourslong standoffs, they realized the calls were hoaxes.
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On many days, conspiracy theories and viral hoaxes top the list.
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In other words, various reports of these threats or very ill-advised hoaxes on social media are coming in across the US. It's likely that the pattern is a mix of people inspired to make copycat threats or hit send on hoaxes after a high-profile mass shooting, but also increased reporting and official action taken on those threats and hoaxes.
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Fortunately, Shatner's in good company when it comes to celebrity death hoaxes.
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Hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and fabricated news are nothing new in human history.
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A number of hoaxes then began to appear in the Trending sidebar.
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We are already compiling all the hoaxes and scams about Hurricane Florence.
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In part, it's an effort to combat the viral spread of hoaxes.
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As a first priority, we are working to surface these hoaxes sooner.
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YouTube also plans to display Wikipedia descriptions alongside videos to counter hoaxes.
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They also frequently plagiarize hoaxes and other content for their associated websites.
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That's what makes these elaborate, star-studded hoaxes all the more entertaining.
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You can see all the hoaxes and falsehoods about the caravan here.
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"The threats were hoaxes, but the calls were not," says Mr Posner.
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In 2017, only 11 of the top 50 hoaxes were about politics.
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This helps explain all the viral hoaxes we observe in the wild.
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All they have are wild conspiracy theories about hoaxes and grant money.
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How do you spot fake news in time to prevent widespread hoaxes?
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The truth is, clown sightings, pranks, and hoaxes aren't new at all.
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The experts say hoaxes make up a minuscule amount of the cases.
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He celebrated that Mr. Trump had triumphed over "hoaxes" such as Obamacare.
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Seeing a UFO is so unlikely that many relegate sightings to hoaxes.
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Be careful of rumors and hoaxes about the voting and polling places.
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Facebook wants to "reduce the financial motivation to spread hoaxes," Zuckerberg said.
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Apparently Facebook hoaxes are still alive and well in the year 9.103.
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The wave of hoaxes has led to growing alarm among school districts.
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No one was injured and the calls appear to be hoaxes, NBC said.
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So, what have we learned from this brief foray into plane crash hoaxes?
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I'll give you news items, and you decide if they're real or hoaxes.
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Just your usual, run-of-the-mill hyperpartisan misinformation and easily debunkable hoaxes.
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This means Facebook made money from the hoaxes being spread on its platform.
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The modern April Fools' Day — with media hoaxes — was born far more recently.
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Schenk is a cofounder of Lead Stories, a website dedicated to debunking hoaxes.
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Pangerapan said the government planned to tighten existing regulations to combat online hoaxes.
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Platforms are removing content from their sites in response to hoaxes and misinformation.
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When it came to crime hoaxes, World News Daily Report dominated the genre.
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Hoaxes in the form of faked pregnancies, faked traumatic situations, even faked disabilities.
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Horner also said he published his hoaxes to make Trump supporters look stupid.
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But how do you answer the criticism that hoaxes do persist on Wikipedia?
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Meanwhile, it's downranking hoaxes, partnering with outside fact checkers and demonetizing fake news.
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Now, I'm working on a big nonfiction book about hoaxes for Graywolf Press.
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Wardle said many of coronavirus hoaxes currently circulating rely on familiar false narratives.
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BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News.
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Their ability to identify and remove hoaxes from their platforms, however, remains spotty.
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The Census Bureau has launched a new email hotline and website for hoaxes.
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A major goal was to debunk hoaxes other sites often don't address directly.
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"New York City's been riddled with myths, hoaxes and urban legends," he said.
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Collecting hoaxes and misinformation about possible shooter situation at YouTube HQ in this thread.
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I know we're all vulnerable in this time of Internet hoaxes and fake news.
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" No bombs have been found, but Jewish leaders hesitate to label the calls "hoaxes.
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This story is ripe for hoaxes, so we're tracking misinformation about it right here.
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Well, it's positively medieval, says Alex Boese, the curator of the museum of hoaxes.
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This post will be updated as we see more hoaxes and misinformation being shared.
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Facebook, in fact, just enlisted a handful of fact-checking sites to flag hoaxes.
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The whole story is a web of hoaxes, and we break it down here.
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"He distributed information to incite racial hatred and hostility... by spreading hoaxes," said Chairul.
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Since the election, Facebook has faced growing pressure to police hoaxes and misleading content.
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The Swiss authority suggested investors visit its website to protect themselves from such hoaxes.
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"The American people are fed up with Democrat lies, hoaxes and extremism," Trump said.
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"The American people are fed up with Democrat lies, hoaxes and extremism," said Trump.
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Exaggerated reports along with out-and-out hoaxes are more common and easily accessible.
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But the online hoaxes and fringe theories appeared more virulent than their offline predecessors.
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It was stunning news, creating more of a firestorm than Poe had expected, Hoaxes.
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The NX controller mockups join a long line of Nintendo hardware and software hoaxes.
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According to their 3403 Bad Ads report released Wednesday, most were consumer-related hoaxes.
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In February, you called crisis actor hoaxes 'abhorrent' and said you would remove them.
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In Young's thesis, hoaxes don't entail "unfailing faith"; rather, they engage with our skepticism.
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These hoaxes are often meant to undermine an election's integrity and delegitimize the winners.
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"Many of these videos appear to be dangerous pranks or hoaxes," the company said.
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Its first response was to try to raise the public's awareness about online hoaxes.
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We're also looking at some of the rumors and hoaxes that have spread online.
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But Facebook and Twitter are still full of hoaxes and rumors about COVID-19.
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It's not surprising that conspiracy theories and hoaxes have begun circulating about the coronavirus.
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" But, I interjected, Trump and many of his supporters say the press perpetuates "hoaxes.
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"I really don't think the calls were hoaxes or pranks," said Officer Dick Duncan.
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The Gateway Pundit promoted hoaxes such as one alleging that protesters in Austin, Tex.
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Almost as soon as the shooting stopped, the fake news and online hoaxes began.
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If you assume for a second that most hoaxes are just spam cluttering up the internet's many "inboxes," it suggests that internet hoaxes exist not to destroy the world or undermine American democracy, but as part of someone's get-rich-quick scheme.
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An exhaustive resource for April Fools' Day reading is the April Fools' archive at Hoaxes.
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The gravest threat seemed to be familiar false new narratives and clumsy, easily debunkable hoaxes.
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Follow along as we fight back against the rise of conspiracies, scams, and online hoaxes.
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Here's a sample: We are tracking all the rumors and hoaxes about the Toronto shooting.
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Until yesterday, Shawn Rice was one of the internet's most prolific debunkers of online hoaxes.
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Since at least November 2016, Rice has written thousands of articles about hoaxes for business2community.
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Facebook added an additional defense today against the spread of fake news and viral hoaxes.
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Almost all such cases have been found to be hoaxes or scares that lack substantiation.
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In a country where hoaxes spread fast, those journalists are up against a big challenge.
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Fact-checkers say hoaxes and calls for violence on social media have spiked this week.
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Sometimes, they hand him internet hoaxes that they believe are real—which explains so much.
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The number of hoaxes have skyrocketed as WhatsApp parent Facebook clamped down on fake news.
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Indeed, his "narcissistic and kitsch" hoaxes reveal nothing less than "the true history of Spain".
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The company has also partnered with fact-checking organizations, working to prevent hoaxes from spreading.
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp has no news feed, and yet hoaxes and propaganda still run rampant.
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Earlier Thursday, a Facebook vice president stated that the company will work to combat hoaxes.
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Of course, Zardulu's claims of orchestrating viral hoaxes have been challenged as yet more trickery.
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Citron cautioned that healthy skepticism is the best way to avoid inadvertently helping hoaxes spread.
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Bowie's death has been the regular subject of Internet hoaxes for the last several years.
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Facebook demotes hoaxes when identified, and is blocking monetization and ad buys from these publishers.
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He has denied charges of sending bomb hoaxes to American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.
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And there are hoaxes aimed at exposing the poor judgment of editors, critics, or readers.
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I'm using the term hoaxes because the fake news word has gotten so bad lately.
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The group's count includes many incidents that turn out to be false alarms or hoaxes.
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Many contain a mixture of hoaxes and half-truths, making them difficult to fact-check.
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Right-wing media also picked up the case as evidence that hate crimes are hoaxes.
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The clown hoaxes spread regionally throughout the Southeast US, up the coast, and then west.
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Nothing. Well, they tried sending people out to talk about how they were seeing hoaxes and, very sadly, one of the people whose job it was to debunk the hoaxes was one of the people who got killed because a hoax started about him.
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Following the Las Vegas shooting, Facebook's Safety Check page was also filled with scammers and hoaxes.
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Facebook said in March it would reduce the distribution of content from groups promoting vaccine hoaxes.
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"The truth is, the Holocaust is one of the biggest hoaxes in world history," he said.
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"We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news," he wrote.
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As with any breaking news situation, rumors, hoaxes, conspiracies, and hyperpartisan spin are already spreading online.
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During breaking news situations, we see a lot of recycled hoaxes that people still fall for.
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Enjoy this lighthearted example: Usually, these types of hoaxes are created to rake in some cash.
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Radio stations repeated the hoaxes to their listeners live 63 times and posted them 49 times.
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Lucky for you, you can hear Jane picking apart hoaxes on our new podcast The News.
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Officials should be very active on social media, to make sure that hoaxes are debunked quickly.
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Does this page's existence — and popularity — suggest Facebook is becoming a less attractive place for hoaxes?
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It'll only take a couple of big hoaxes to really convince the public that nothing's real.
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By the way, we're keeping a close eye on conspiracy theories and hoaxes about the elections.
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Within an hour of the shooting, rumors and coordinated hoaxes began to spread on social media.
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Many believe the sightings are hoaxes or can be explained by floating logs or strong winds.
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Social media also blurs the line between facts and fiction, and is therefor ripe for hoaxes.
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Hoaxes and spam are problems on Facebook and the company, once again, is working on it.
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Wacker said police received 186 complaints of fruit contamination, 15 of which proved to be hoaxes.
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"Fake news" has been used to describe legitimate reports, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, satire, and reporting errors.
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"People are still learning how to use social media, so many can easily fall for hoaxes."
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Similar hoaxes have spread about pending privacy policy changes at Facebook, which owns the photo platform.
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Facebook is finally making some moves to limit the spread of anti-vaccination posts and hoaxes.
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Holocaust hoaxes are difficult to pull off because of the extent of documentation of the genocide.
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The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics.
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There's never been a completely leaked exit poll in the US, but there are sometimes hoaxes.
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The "Category 6" reports are not the only hoaxes circulating as Irma moves through the Caribbean.
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Some of the hoaxes have appear to have been propelled by fake accounts, the report said.
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During the campaign, actual "fake news" — deliberate hoaxes — polluted political discourse and clogged social media timelines.
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It also doesn't prevent people from posting hoaxes or fake census information in the first place.
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Baker acknowledged criticism of how slow Facebook is to direct hoaxes and misinformation to fact-checkers.
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Government departments and civil society groups now race to debunk hoaxes as quickly as they appear.
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The Gateway Pundit is a far-right fringe publication that often pushes hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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Photo: GettyFacebook wants you to know that it is committed to stopping the spread of internet hoaxes.
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And many in India have blamed numerous launchings on hoaxes spread on the Facebook-owned platform, WhatsApp.
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As CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter notes, there's a spectrum: total hoaxes, hyper-partisan and hybrids.
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Check4Spam provides a dedicated phone number for people to forward any hoaxes they receive directly over WhatsApp.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly insisted that these types of hoaxes do not affect user opinions.
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As the cathedral burned, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and coordinated disinformation campaigns began to spread across social media.
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Making money for online sleazeballs isn't the only issue with hoaxes, nor are websites their only incarnation.
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The stunt, in effect, became a misinformation campaign that potentially deceived audiences that consumed the hoaxes online.
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At the same time, the hoaxes have become so widespread that some groups are preemptively debunking them.
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Thanks to your hard work and partnership, we have learned how to reduce distribution of news hoaxes.
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This is a huge story, and as with all big stories, be careful of hoaxes and misinformation.
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Regardless of age, the digital literacy gap has previously been blamed on users' willingness to share hoaxes.
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Like Twitter's toxic tweets, allowing hoaxes to mushroom runs the risk of turning off members and brands.
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It's important to note that YouTube is not blocking the video results or actual videos about hoaxes.
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Lastly, beware of hoaxes Scamsters always come out during an emergency, and post-Harvey is no different.
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Facebook has already put in place other features to identify stories that might be hoaxes or false.
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In India, the largest market for Facebook's WhatsApp service, hoaxes have triggered riots, lynchings, and fatal beatings.
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However, that approach can leave fact-checkers overwhelmed and able to tackle only the most viral hoaxes.
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We already know that fake news sites published hoaxes and spun facts to benefit Donald Trump's campaign.
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And some hoaxes, like the Ern Malley hoax, are intended to damage the reputations of other people.
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Literary hoaxes appeal to critics and theorists because they expose the fragility of the norms of reading.
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BUNK The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News By Kevin Young Illustrated.
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Well, they've kind of gotten their heads handed to them around the fake news stuff or hoaxes.
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But across the country, other officials were on edge as rumors and hoaxes flew at broadband speed.
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We've made progress fighting hoaxes the way we fight spam, but we have more work to do.
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We are proceeding carefully because there is not always a clear line between hoaxes, satire and opinion.
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While no one was arrested in connection with the contaminations, a few people were arrested for hoaxes.
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According to Barden, almost all of the tips were legitimate -- as opposed to false reports or hoaxes.
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Far-right massacres are actually leftist hoaxes, but Antifa will bludgeon any conservatives who dissent into submission.
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Right-wing Facebook pages were found to share hoaxes nearly twice as often as left-leaning ones.
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That year, Facebook knew it had a problem on its hands, and pledged to show fewer hoaxes.
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Websites magnify conspiracies Hoaxes and conspiracy theories fully mature once the conspiracy establishment finds and publishes them.
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He saw part of his job as countering disaster-related rumors and hoaxes by providing scientific explanations.
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He saw part of his job as countering disaster-related rumors and hoaxes by providing scientific explanations.
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"Is Selfie Rat just the tip of a rotting, viral iceberg made of elaborate hoaxes?" he mused.
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After dozens of college campus hoaxes by leftists, I don't buy this super convenient turn of events.
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Similar measures were taken on Monday "to prevent hoaxes from spreading widely", the ministry said in a statement.
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She consistently misidentifies suspects during breaking news situations and, during the midterm elections, spread hoaxes about voter fraud.
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The company's rolling out tools that make it much easier to report hoaxes and mark news as fake.
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The more conservative you were in 13, the argument goes, the more likely you were to share hoaxes.
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Websites that spread hoaxes to bring in an audience are going to try to capitalize on the hurricane.
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And this week the U.K. teenager from Watford, near London, pled guilty to the airline and school hoaxes.
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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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"I know [Rice] likes to steal stories about death hoaxes, so I created one for him," he said.
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But the internet being what it is, hoaxes have sprung up around the company's response to the outcry.
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Of course, it's prominent conspiracy websites like Infowars and poorly moderated social media that helps these hoaxes spread.
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Google's featured snippets have in recent months sourced results from sites that traffic in conspiracy theories and hoaxes.
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"We're just getting more hoaxes every day," says Lt. Gianfranco Palomba, who's been tasked with stopping the calls.
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The second is that people experience cognitive decline as they age, making them likelier to fall for hoaxes.
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Another reason why copycat hoaxes work is that debunking takes time, while copying and pasting a story doesn't.
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As ever, the trick for April Fools' Day hoaxes was to try to be outlandish, yet faintly plausible.
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He's long been concerned about digital photo hoaxes, especially since cellphone cameras became common in the mid-2000s.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared his condolences and acknowledged that the platform was being used to share hoaxes.
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In a statement, the bureau said that no one was injured — which authorities said appeared to be hoaxes.
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Wacker said police received 186 complaints of fruit contamination, of which 15 had been found to be hoaxes.
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Social sites have struggled to reduce fake news stories, sensationalism and hoaxes that spread easily on social media.
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Those included everything from weight loss scams and fake products to malware-laced pop-ups and phishing hoaxes.
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At the end of 2015, the Washington Post ceased to run a column addressing and debunking internet hoaxes.
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Some people are claiming Gator Chris' photos are theirs, while hoaxes like this previously debunked shark have resurfaced.
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They're following the money, and restricting advertising on sites that publish hoaxes and lies and call them news.
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In the porous logic of prejudice, hoaxes are leveraged to undermine any and all claims of racist attacks.
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It is not enough, in this war of hoaxes and delusions and perpetuated lies, to be merely honest.
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The problem is that Greenfield, who has written books about health and triathlons, also promotes anti-vaccination hoaxes.
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Miller's particular subject is literary hoaxes—that is, books that are deliberate, flat-out violations of the pact.
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Similar hoaxes predate the coronavirus, including some that used the upcoming U.S. census in place of the coronavirus.
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Google's move similarly does not address the issue of fake news or hoaxes appearing in Google search results.
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The group would not reveal many of the other hoaxes they've done, but claim they've fooled others previously.
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They also would not give any insight into future hoaxes they have planned, but said to expect them.
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The history of anti-Semitism, a tale of prejudice fueled by myths and hoaxes that ended in genocide.
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Born in Connecticut in 25, he moved to New York in 83 and was soon pitching preposterous hoaxes.
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People have been punished for posting about aliens and zombies, among some of the more elaborate online hoaxes.
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After Buzzfeed posted its painstaking documentation of hoaxes, many of the accounts and tweets were in fact deleted.
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The phenomenon has spurred several hoaxes in which pranksters have stuffed animals' feet into shoes to fool officials.
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But that doesn't mean that hoaxes about the virus aren't being watched on the platform in huge numbers.
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People have been trotting out racist, anti-Chinese, and anti-immigrant memes, comments, and hoaxes about the outbreak.
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And a day after April Fools' Day, we're covering some of the history and hoaxes of the event.
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And if that happens, we will all be forever trapped in a world of hoaxes, trolls and fake news.
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At first, attention was focused on how bad actors used Facebook to achieve massive distribution for hoaxes and misinformation.
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Fast-forward a few millennia, and you'll find hoaxes circulating online since Usenet was how people mainly communicated online.
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BuzzFeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko started a hugely important thread on Twitter, collecting dozens of examples of hoaxes and misinformation.
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Of course, maybe YouTube would've learned that showing users a Wikipedia link isn't the best way to fight hoaxes.
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Even if the website doesn't grow or turn into anything significant, I'll still bust hoaxes on WhatsApp for them.
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When Sandberg says Facebook has been working on the spread of hoaxes "for a long time," she means it.
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Blair runs a network of Facebook pages and websites that spread hoaxes he says are aimed at fooling conservatives.
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Together, Facebook and the news organizations will attempt to identify fast-spreading hoaxes and discourage users from sharing them.
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Often they were missed, or the government panicked without reason, dragging along a public panicked by hoaxes posted online.
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A common tactic leading up to this year's election was to push hoaxes about political figures secretly being gay.
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She also said a page that shared hoaxes can earn back its reach if it stops sharing false content.
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Call me the hipster grifter, but there is an undeniable thrill in watching people pull off elaborate, complicated hoaxes.
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EgyptAir has received a number of bomb threats since then, all of which have turned out to be hoaxes.
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In addition to pioneering memes and internet cultural trends like Rickrolling, 22017chan has generated hoaxes, cyberbullying incidents, and pranks.
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Reports of hoaxes that last year numbered in the dozens per day have since grown to hundreds per day.
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In a year full of fake news and hoaxes, even a great white shark may seem like small potatoes.
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Thursday's action follows other moves by Facebook to make it easier for users to report potential fraud and hoaxes.
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Lyons went on to say that the company believes it has a responsibility to limit the distribution of hoaxes.
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Google therefore profits from ads served on thousands of sites which promote propaganda, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and basic lies.
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" Stocky did admit that curators "are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources.
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Fate magazine was not afraid to debunk the hoaxes or scams it covered in its investigations into the supernatural.
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The rollout will use updated machine learning to detect more potential hoaxes to send to third party fact checkers.
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And Facebook allowed disinformation and viral hoaxes to run amok in the News Feed during a pivotal presidential election.
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Alright, this particular hate crime turned out to be a hoax, but let's remember, ALL OF THEM are hoaxes.
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It has also come under pressure to block health hoaxes, including posts trying to dissuade people from getting vaccinated.
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The three attackers had been wearing what looked like explosive vests that were later found to have been hoaxes.
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Is it possible to facilitate a space for open dialogue without also facilitating hoaxes, harassment, and threats of violence?
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" More recently, he declared the official 26 percent jobless rate "one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics.
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These are the real unemployment numbers – the five percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in modern politics.
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Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and Amazon are all working to keep dangerous anti-vaccination rumors and hoaxes from getting attention.
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Most of the people who end up arrested are victims ... They read hoaxes and believed them to be true.
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Users who wanted to believe the false stories had their fevers ignited and they actually shared the hoaxes more.
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I also get to pick apart hilarious hoaxes no one actually believes—including some things said by the president.
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Like the greatest of hoaxes, so-called fake news does better than resist shaming by logic and moral reasoning.
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"One of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet," scoffed Rush Limbaugh of Palm Beach. Gov.
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Before there was Mr. Weerasinghe, there was Ashin Wirathu, the Myanmar extremist, whose Facebook hoaxes incited riots in 2014.
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Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.
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Rex Sorgatz's new book is a romp through lies, hoaxes and conspiracy theories — perfect for the internet in 2018.
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There has never been an actual leaked exit poll in the US. But there have been plenty of hoaxes.
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This report breaks down what happened in Myanmar, where viral hoaxes on Facebook fueled ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.
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Why do people fall for hoaxes like these, which have been around for the better part of a decade?
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When someone has been attacked or endangered; when a vulnerable group has been targeted; when hoaxes and falsehoods rage.
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Fake information about the coronavirus has led to riots in Ukraine, widespread misinformation in India, and many, many hoaxes.
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"Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other."
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At least eight people have been arrested by the Chinese government for spreading hoaxes, according to the Poynter Institute.
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It is not new for hoaxes to be used as marketing gimmicks, particularly in the age of social media.
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Though some turned out to be hoaxes, they prompted lockdowns and led classes to be canceled as a precaution.
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In this case, we feel like our responsibility is to prevent hoaxes from going viral and being widely distributed.
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Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela has warned all employees to not participate in the process of annoying hoaxes on Monday.
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Far-right personality Laura Loomer, known for spreading hoaxes and feeding false conspiracy theories, was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday.
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Many, many years ago, in a crueler world, hoaxes and pranks that were pulled had a much more sinister nature.
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Over the past year, YouTube has been repeatedly criticized for guiding viewers toward extreme view points, inappropriate content, or hoaxes.
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Outside of Trending, Facebook continues to be filled with inaccurate, poorly-sourced, or outright fake news stories, rumors and hoaxes.
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Doing that not only means debunking Indian hoaxes but also doing it on the very platform where they originate: WhatsApp.
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Facebook has pushed back against those critics while also beginning to introduce new ways for its users to report hoaxes.
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On the other hand, individuals have used illusions to conduct elaborate hoaxes that have tricked researchers into embracing false conclusions.
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If their enthusiasm is any indication, this Friday going to be as full of advertising lies and hoaxes as ever.
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"We will make it an obligation for all social media platforms to actively remove hoaxes and fake news," he said.
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In comparison to the targeted disinformation campaigns that have dominated headlines in recent years, social media hoaxes seem almost quaint.
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If robots can freely pose as humans the scope for mischief is incredible; ranging from scam calls to automated hoaxes.
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EgyptAir has received a number of bomb threats since the crash, all of which have turned out to be hoaxes.
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" For fake news, Zuckerberg wants to stop the spreading of posts by "real people who are sharing provably false hoaxes.
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Remember when it allowed hoaxes and propaganda to spread uninhibited in the lead-up to the election of Donald Trump?
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For the Italian elections this year, for example, the company hired independent fact-checkers to flag fake news and hoaxes.
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Clear hoaxes that can be disproven with facts are only part of the problem, and perhaps are easier to address.
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Since then she says she's been working on many more surreal and absurd "illusions"—her word for successful media hoaxes.
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Nevertheless, the rumour mill is in near-constant overdrive about her health and there are regular hoaxes about her death.
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Threats to schools and school districts in the United States are fairly common, and often turn out to be hoaxes.
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He has invited conspiracy theorists into his inner circle at a time when hoaxes saturate the public consciousness on Facebook.
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Except for a few messages, most of which are believed to be hoaxes, he has not been heard from since.
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These are the real unemployment numbers — the 20163 percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics.
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" He told them that Trump is the nominee you get when your agenda is "based on lies, based on hoaxes.
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These hoaxes are not just bouncing around among like-minded conspiracy theorists; candidates and elected officials are sharing them, too.
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More and more often, innocent people are getting caught up in viral hoaxes to make them look like terror suspects.
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This is where Christopher L. Miller's smart and engaging study, " Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity " (Chicago), enters the conversation.
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There are hoaxes designed to insinuate a subversive message through a benign-seeming work, a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing text.
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The map lists 243 "hoaxes" in all, with 187 points marked across Germany, according to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung's count.
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The media becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of newsworthiness, diverting attention and outrage to false claims and viral hoaxes.
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Trending sideways: Facebook is cracking down on coronavirus hoaxes in English, but misinformation continues to go viral in other languages.
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Trending sideways: Facebook is cracking down on coronavirus hoaxes in English, but misinformation continues to go viral in other languages.
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Mr. Naik, the scientist, said many plant-based home remedies posted to Anna Arogya have turned out to be hoaxes.
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While many reports have turned out to be hoaxes, some have resulted in arrests, including at least nine in Alabama.
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But even sensible people find it difficult to resist hoarding masks or shutting out hoaxes about the spread of coronavirus.
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As they are in every other country, social media users in India are sharing hoaxes and rumors about the outbreak.
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Like the earlier threats, they were deemed hoaxes, but not before several of the centers were evacuated as a precaution.
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In India, fake news, hoaxes and other misleading videos have thrived on Google's video platform with little friction for years.
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Most U.F.O. sightings turn out to be swamp gas and other atmospheric anomalies, Venus, weird reflections or just plain hoaxes.
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Launched in 1994, Snopes is the internet's most thorough and reliable site dedicated to debunking hoaxes, myths, and fake news.
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The first type of fake news — hoaxes — rely on the rapid-click business model that is sometimes associated with clickbait.
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In this case, we feel like our responsibility is to prevent hoaxes from going viral and being widely distributed. Okay.
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Imagine how weird it must feel to be in that category of celebrities whose obituaries repeatedly make for believable, spreadable hoaxes.
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The cap on forwarding comes after at least 20 mob killings, linked to viral child abduction hoaxes spread on the platform.
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"All bomb threats this year proved to be hoaxes, and all JCCs impacted have returned to regular operations," the association said.
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Snopes (22018)The internet has made it possible for urban legends, bullshit rumors, and obvious hoaxes to go viral almost instantly.
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MMFA found that 98 stations shared 101 hoaxes between December 2016 and February 2018, both on air and through social media.
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Shark-related hoaxes show up in every major national disaster, usually in the form of a shark swimming in the street.
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Studies show that almost all those scary accounts of candy poisoning by strangers have been hoaxes or scares that lack substantiation.
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A fake Donald Trump Twitter account with more than 10,000 followers spread several hoaxes on Tuesday before being suspended by Twitter.
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Twenty-three of the 50 top-performing fake news hoaxes identified by BuzzFeed News that year were focused on US politics.
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The Snopes debunkings of the top two WNDR hoaxes on the list received a total of just 20163,748 engagements between them.
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Still, Schemer says he's reassured by the speed with which many hoaxes have been debunked by the media and law enforcement.
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ForoCoches, designed much like Reddit, has a history with trolls and hoaxes, as every site dependent on user-submitted content does.
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We are hoping to help untangle conflicting evidence about when fact-checking helps stop hoaxes from spreading and when it doesn't.
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It could also help reduce the spread of hoaxes and misinformation on pages that are designed to mimic local news sources.
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Jane Lytvynenko rounds up the hoaxes about it, including a fake viral tweet from a person who is not Morgan Freeman.
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These hoaxes now spreading across India's most widely used messaging platform have already led to horrific mob killings and voter suppression.
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In response to recent concerns about "fake news" and opinion-swaying hoaxes, Facebook has unveiled new measures to address the issue.
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He said the three attackers had been wearing what looked like explosive vests that were later found to have been hoaxes.
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In the wake of a close contest, some have said Facebook's lax attitude toward hoaxes swung the election to Donald Trump.
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Facebook acknowledged that the company has been reconsidering its approach to combating hoaxes, but says the story's central allegation is false.
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I've been covering news on the internet for more than a decade now, and hoaxes like this can get pretty elaborate.
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Hoaxes are not exactly a new thing on the Internet, which has come to seem almost purpose-built to breed them.
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"It'll be difficult to rein this in again," tweeted Karolin Schwarz, founder of Hoaxmap, a German website dedicated to debunking hoaxes.
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That hasn't stopped those hoaxes from spreading rampantly online through services like Facebook and YouTube, where misinformation can easily go viral.
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In both cases responding officers were able to determine that the reports were hoaxes, though the callers reported shootings in progress.
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If the answer is yes, then we should believe in the power of viral hoaxes when they spread on social media.
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JF: And if we don't figure out a way to reach them, then the hoaxes are going to reach them, right?
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Similarly, the press has few answers for how to cover propaganda in an online ecosystem that is designed to spread hoaxes.
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The News Literacy Project also has a "Rumor Review" that helps students look critically at how coronavirus hoaxes continue to spread.
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Recode has put together a good summary of some of the most pervasive corona virus hoaxes that have been widely shared.
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Swatting hoaxes — where a perpetrator makes a fake threat to draw an extreme police response — can be highly difficult to trace.
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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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This would theoretically stop politicians from spreading obvious, existing viral hoaxes, which are the primary target of Facebook's fact-checking program.
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Mr. Saleh, who has a history of video hoaxes to expose stereotypes against Muslims, insisted that Wednesday's episode wasn't a stunt.
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The company said it's focused on removing "publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes" identified by groups like the World Health Organization, like #VaccinesCauseAIDS.
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If you want to learn more about the holiday, read Michelle Hackman's earnest explainer or nerd out over hoaxes past at Hoaxes.org.
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It's a common element of demon possession hoaxes, since witnesses come to believe the "possessed" person is moving without her own control.
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It could be a rumor-based culture of misinformation, like the localized hoaxes that circulate in countries like India, Myanmar, or Brazil.
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Just like last year with Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, propagators of online hoaxes are using the important news event to spread misinformation.
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Schenk even created a Twitter account to share the hoaxes so that Rice would have a tweet to embed in his stories.
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Before reviewing one of the greatest hoaxes in sports history, let's first meet the perpetrators: Morris Newburger, Lew Krupnick and Bink Dannenbaum.
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Facebook is taking more steps to punish page owners outside of the US that target Americans with financially motivated hoaxes and misinformation.
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Go here to view the full list of top 503 hoaxes of 2017, and the list of sites used to compile it.
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The main change, he said, has been how much faster propaganda spreads than when he started, and hoaxes spread primarily via email.
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It's all part of Facebook's ongoing public relations freak out surrounding the prevalence of fake news and hoaxes spread on the platform.
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In that regard, political hoaxes will hit a lot harder when it's a video instead of a 'shopped picture being forwarded around.
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The internet has always been filled with hoaxes, fakes, liars, and cheats, long before the term "fake news" became a household phrase.
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The problem is that there are some things which are obviously hoaxes, but others that are less easy to categorize, he said.
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Ethiraj reportedly said that Boom went from receiving about a dozen tips a day regarding WhatsApp hoaxes to now hundreds a day.
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Related: We spoke to the guy behind all those Pokémon Go internet hoaxes Meanwhile, French law enforcement has issued warnings to players.
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It'll be even more useful if the hyper-partisan Facebook users who are most susceptible to Facebook hoaxes actually download the extension.
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Overnight we had over 200 reports — some of them were hoaxes but that's why we say they were just reports, you know?
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He posted a large amount of hoaxes, including memes that alleged prominent Democratic donor George Soros was behind movements against conservative interests.
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One of these was a post from 4Chan, a site known for its online hoaxes and misinformation, which contained the false claim.
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You may remember the 2628-year-old Wohl as the alt-right provocateur who was banned from Twitter for promoting other hoaxes.
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Other fact-checkers are more sanguine, recognizing the limits of exposing online hoaxes, but also standing by the utility of the effort.
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The calls, which have all turned out to be hoaxes, have targeted 54 community centers in 27 states so far this year.
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They found that 99 percent of attempted hoaxes are caught immediately' within the first minute after they pop up on the site.
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" In a separate blog entry, Blankenstein also wrote that "hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes.
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The trouble with hoaxes, in two acts: Lawmakers brought up Facebook's issues with hoax sites but from two radically different sides. Rep.
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Nobody has sustained serious injury yet, and a senior Australian minister said many of the cases would turn out to be hoaxes.
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"We've actually spent a lot of time on News Feed to reduce [fake stories and hoaxes'] prevalence in the ecosystem," said Mosseri.
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This is the same policy that prevented from showing advertising prior YouTube videos about other dangerous challenges and hoaxes, they also noted.
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More resources to curb fake news: They announced another program to work with third-party fact checkers to identify hoaxes on Facebook.
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Intercultural hoaxes are aimed at readers who are curious about worlds they have little contact with, and who are therefore easily duped.
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As we saw during the election, it was these conservative viral hoaxes that tended to spread farther and faster than liberal ones.
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We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news, and there is more we can do here.
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JF: They tried to make Obamacare like, "Oh it's a government takeover," it's socialized medicine, death panels, all these hoaxes, conspiracy theories.
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Facebook has also waffled on how to handle a host of other content on its platform, including anti-vaccination hoaxes and misinformation.
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Stories about mysterious "sky trumpets" heard around the world went viral in 2015, but many of them turned out to be hoaxes.
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The mass shootings in Parkland and Las Vegas were elaborately staged hoaxes, much like the moon landing, according to countless YouTube videos.
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Removing algorithmically generated modules of trending content would deny bad actors an easily gamed avenue for delivering hoaxes to platforms' user bases.
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But I'm haunted by this question: Had we done more to expose the viciously dishonest hoaxes, might things have turned out differently?
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After the election, some producers of predominantly right-wing viral news stories acknowledged their work as hoaxes designed to attract advertising revenue.
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Meanwhile, Jewish community centers, including centers in Chicago, Houston and Tampa, received an influx of bomb threats later determined to be hoaxes.
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This WhatsApp messaging will actually dispel all rumors and all hoaxes very quickly, giving the people confidence in living day by day.
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Here are some of the most prominent hoaxes about coronavirus that are currently being spread across social media and resources debunking them.
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The good news is that data suggest some hoaxes are declining in prevalence due to stepped-up security efforts from the IRS.
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So without further ado, here's a countdown of the ten hoaxes that caused or revealed the greatest amount of ugliness in 2017.
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The latest move to strengthen the fact checking program is aimed at verifying the accuracy of stories and preventing the spread of hoaxes.
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The family has also reportedly been the target of hoaxes — including a young woman who called the family home pretending to be Coldon.
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Facebook says it plans to warn and demonetize pages that violate the rules, but then reinstate these pages if they stop sharing hoaxes.
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In the past few months, a string of ill-advised jokes, hoaxes, and threats have all resulted in police inquiries across the country.
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Click through to see nine of the biggest social media and internet hoaxes that far too many of us fell for in 2016.
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An analysis from BuzzFeed News found that "hyperpartisan," Trump-supporting fake news was shared at a considerably higher rate than left-leaning hoaxes.
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"This is an effort to curb hoaxes and, most importantly, stop people from sharing provocative messages that can incite racial hatred," he added.
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Read more: Hoaxes And Misleading Information To Look Out For Ahead Of The Midterms —Jane Lytvynenko and Craig Silverman Welcome to Election Day.
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After the Sunday shooting at a video game tournament left two dead and 11 injured, coordinated hoaxes began to spread on social media.
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My colleagues who work on tracking fake news and misinformation noticed that this shooting inspired a significant number of hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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The shooting survivor who first broke the news had his account hacked to post juvenile, anti-gay messages, and hoaxes kept rolling in.
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Fake news and hoaxes are like zombies: just when you think they're dead, they make a spectacular — and unexpected — comeback, stronger than before.
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The company works with Poynter International Fact-Checking Network members, including Snopes and Politifact, to identify hoaxes and discourage users from sharing them.
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That battle has been particularly fraught on social networks, where malicious actors have spent the past several years peddling hoaxes and sowing division.
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And in this case, amidst rising anti-refugee sentiment in Europe, this isn't simply a case of algorithms or hoaxes—it's someone's life.
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It's impossible to determine which of these incidents are hoaxes and which are bona fide tales of clowning around taken to the extreme.
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A statement from the department said bomb hoaxes are not "a joke," adding they will continue to investigate the case and bring charges.
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As hoaxes become an almost daily occurrence in the U.S., this possibility makes it all the more difficult to assess a threat's reality.
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It's impossible to determine which of these incidents were hoaxes and which were bona fide tales of clowning around taken to the extreme.
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He will be remembered as a sad, small tyrant who rode a wave of Facebook hoaxes and Twitter hate to hijack a party.
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"People often share these hoaxes and later decide to delete their original posts after they realize they have been tricked," the company wrote.
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Facebook has also been mired in an ongoing controversy over its news-gathering algorithms, which have recently promoted inaccurate hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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Facebook has found marking "fake news" as hoaxes through a third party decreases the number of times a story is shared, Sandberg said.
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Despite an abundance of similar hoaxes, officials still aren't sure who won one of the $528 million Powerball jackpots in California on Wednesday.
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Reuters reported that an Israeli court found Michael Kadar, 19, guilty on charges of extortion, disseminating hoaxes to spread panic and money launder.
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"Over all, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other," Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.
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But criticism persisted amid reports that people in the United States and other countries have fabricated sensational hoaxes meant to appeal to conservatives.
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"Alright, this particular hate crime turned out to be a hoax, but let's remember, ALL OF THEM are hoaxes," the conservative firebrand wrote.
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Facebook is filled with fake news stories and hoaxes, and its latest feature, Facebook Live, most recently captured a horrific alleged hate crime.
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In the absence of uniform online policies about hoaxes, Mr. Pozner's most effective tool has been filing copyright claims on images of Noah.
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News has proved to be a tricky area for Facebook, as hoaxes and false news stories have sometimes spread easily on the network.
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Mr. Reginella said he has sold roughly 1,500 T-shirts of the three hoaxes, of which the ferry disaster is the top seller.
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A more modest approach might be to build editorial teams that keep watch over trending hashtags and remove obvious hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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After the bombing in Manchester, England, this week that killed 22, internet users and publishers have spread rumors and hoaxes, and miscast blame.
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They should invest in technology that combines meta-data with text and language patterns to flag and rank hoaxes, disinformation and disputed assertions.
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The Australian government points out some of the cases could be "hoaxes or copycat events," but that hasn't stopped people from freaking out.
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Social media erupted with anger against the airline industry, but also skepticism, since Mr. Saleh, above, has perpetrated video hoaxes in the past.
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One of the many hoaxes that could have led Trump to his pullout plan was the idea that global warming has recently stopped.
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But some far-right and conservatives personalities are already using his story as evidence that the majority, if not all, hate crimes are hoaxes.
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The anatomy of a lieSeveral fact-checkers detailed how hoaxes are spread visually in their region, typically around contentious political topics and political campaigns.
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It is interesting because there are people who do media hoaxes and there's a certain part of the media intelligence that loves them. Yes.
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Hoaxes have thrived on WhatsApp in India, for instance, where misinformation has spread on the app, creating panic, and even leading to a death.
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I have been able to investigate a wide variety of online misbehavior, including fraudulent reviews, hoaxes, online trolling, and multiple account abuse, among others.
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In fact, the viral hoaxes spread through well-intentioned community members — which is how the wrong National Guard phone number gained so much traction.
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Instead, it has for years over-relied on its algorithms to customize the News Feed, which allowed fake news, hoaxes, and clickbait to spread.
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But real-world sharing behavior at least initially appears to back up the results: posts determined to be hoaxes by rumor-checking site Emergent.
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Online crimes are hard to trace, and that's a real problem for the people who are fighting online threats, swatting hoaxes, or ransomware operations.
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Facebook's problems with hoaxes also popped up in one of its biggest headaches of 2016—a number of stories about its Trending news module.
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But it's also a source of fake news and hoaxes as images, warnings, and copy-pasted articles spread through group chats with surprising speed.
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Platforms also strike against misinformation preemptively by banning fake accounts as they are created, filtering hoaxes from search results and trends, and so on.
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The layoffs were followed by several high-profile blunders, in which the company allowed fake news stories (or hoaxes) to trend on the website.
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But it reveals what's going on here: These hoaxes are not so much about academic hygiene as they are about discrediting one's political opponents.
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She said Facebook has also started to go after fake news at the domain level, taking disciplinary steps against pages that repeatedly push hoaxes.
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They made a number of other false accusations against various YouTubers, as well as BuzzFeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko, who had been debunking the hoaxes.
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In essence, the Las Vegas shooter hoaxes seem to align with something larger — an ongoing war, waged online, against mainstream media and democratic society.
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Such a policy would, obviously, prevent administration officials from falling for hoaxes in the guise of communication from the personal accounts of public figures.
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In the 1980s there were online discussion communities called Usenet newsgroups where hoaxes would be shared among cliques of conspiracy theorists and sensation-mongers.
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The video isn't extremely popular, just under 20,000 views, but is one example of the constellations of hoaxes and truthers surrounding Las Vegas shooting.
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Many of the fake news claims and hoaxes that followed the Las Vegas shooting implied that the shooter specifically targeted conservative-minded Trump supporters.
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Notable hoaxes could be found on social media on Election Day, even as tech companies said they were working to crack down on misinformation.
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Instead of working from an office in Russia to spread hoaxes, experts say, misinformation runs through different Facebook groups of people of similar ideologies.
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Jason Paul Smith, 42, admitted to one count of conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes before U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan.
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The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of UFO incidents can be explained by natural phenomena, misidentified aircraft, and even hoaxes.
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The internet is many things, but sometimes it just seems to be a way for rumors, hoaxes, and lies to spread like black mold.
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West believes that bringing more humans into the mix—essentially making everyone on the internet a fact-checker—could curb hoaxes before they spread.
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Anti-immigration hoaxes aren't about the midterms, exactly, but could affect the results since Trump is relying on immigration fears to fuel GOP turnout.
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Most hoaxes, he said, appear to be motivated by a simple desire to put one over on the world, or by hidden commercial interests.
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And while there are rare reports of children finding foreign objects in their candy, Best believes that the lion's share of these are hoaxes.
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Facebook says they're updating their trending featuring to improve user experience and help prevent hoaxes and fake news from appearing in the trending module.
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But fake stories continued to chug along parallel to reality, and as usual, the hoaxes, lies and nonsense provided insight into the country's feelings.
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Or at least, according to the Museum of Hoaxes (an incredible online resource), they used to be weird enough to count as real pranks.
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Researchers who have looked into scares about Halloween candy have found that they're mostly hoaxes, with no evidence for the vast majority of scares.
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The messaging app, owned by Chinese conglomerate Tencent, has allowed ordinary people to track the virus — as well as pass along hoaxes and misinformation.
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An outbreak of the novel coronavirus around the globe has spawned countless online rumors and hoaxes, promising false cures and causing panic amid uncertainty.
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Social media hoaxes often capitalize on the outpouring of support for victims of crises, and trick those seeking to help into unwittingly sharing misinformation.
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A Connecticut man pleaded guilty this week to a series of hoaxes, including sending a letter with white powder threatening to kill President Trump.
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Monday's threats, all hoaxes, affected centers in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.
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Within days, the clown hoaxes spread rapidly throughout the Carolinas, again via solely anonymous reports, and so on through the rest of the nation.
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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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What would it take to create a new, trusted social networking platform that combats hoaxes and propaganda while serving the public interest more generally?
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Concerns have increased that internet hoaxes could significantly impact the upcoming German election which is due to be held between August 27 and November 27.
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The company introduced a series of updates on Thursday that are aimed at preventing the spread of hoaxes as well as false and misleading news.
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While many of them may have been hoaxes and jokes, NBC News reported that police in at least four cities have thwarted credible potential attacks.
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While many of them may have been hoaxes and jokes, NBC News reports that police in at least four cities have thwarted credible potential attacks.
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Hoaxes, misinformation, and political propaganda have spread rapidly through Facebook-owned WhatsApp, inciting panic and riots, and, in at least one instance, fueling a lynching.
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As for Kickstarter, it doesn't appear to care too much about potential hoaxes or parodies so long as the campaign is not an outright fraud.
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Yet when these stories were shared on Facebook, nobody referred to them as hoaxes, or falsehoods, that needed to be identified and removed from circulation.
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I was curious how these monsters got into these major museums and, since, they're almost universally recognized as hoaxes, why are they still on view?
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Clickbait sites manufacture hoaxes to make money from ads, while so-called hyperpartisan sites publish and spread rumors and conspiracy theories to influence public opinion.
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Here Are The Rumors And Hoaxes We're Tracking About The Jacksonville Shooting There was a mass shooting over the weekend at a video game tournament.
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The threats all turned out to be hoaxes, and at least one man in Missouri has been arrested, accused of making some of the threats.
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Two years after Facebook began making a serious effort to counter the viral spread of misinformation, hoaxes remain a fact of life on social networks.
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As the social network has become an increasingly popular place for bands to interact with their fans, it's also become a breeding ground for hoaxes.
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If Facebook's third-party fact-checkers limit themselves to flagging stories that are straightforward hoaxes, that will go a long way toward making them credible.
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A lot of fake news sites that are removed on Facebook are hoaxes, as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg emphasized in her interviewwith Axios two weeks ago.
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Those stories were largely based on urban legends that were repeated every October, and some widely reported hoaxes perpetrated by both kids and their parents.
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And the Pew study didn't address some specific, more extreme forms: Non-consensually posting nude photos or personal information, hacking into accounts and "swatting" hoaxes.
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And that's just the start: An untold number of other pieces of user-generated misinformation and hoaxes on the shooting spread freely on social media.
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So despite what you may have heard about Chinese hoaxes or scientific fraud, it's increasingly obvious that climate change is very real and well underway.
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Social media made headlines in the wake of the terrible shooting in Las Vegas last year, when false accusations and other hoaxes spread across Twitter.
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It's a sad state of affairs when it has become routine to see hoaxes and fake news doing the rounds during big breaking news stories.
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They note that Facebook has helped Infowars and Gateway Pundit, two outlets that have promoted hoaxes, become bigger brands and reach a much wider audience.
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Scammers looking to push hoaxes flocked to Facebook in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting to take advantage of Facebook's safety check feature.
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Facebook is far from the only home for political misinformation online, researchers say, with Twitter and YouTube also working to combat hoaxes on their platforms.
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Since many of them have turned out to be false reports — perhaps just teenagers pulling hoaxes — why do you think these clown pranks keep spreading?
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Far right groups like to dismiss all such accusations, brandishing the hoaxes as evidence that any person or organization with which they disagree lacks credibility.
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Update 6:37am: Buzzfeed has a good running tally of all the hoaxes that are emerging on social media in the wake of the shooting.
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Tweets promoting anti-vaccination myths are not against Twitter's rules, but those promoting those myths or hoaxes as an advertisement would be against Twitter's guidelines.
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The post has been widely discussed following the attack, and subject to intense suspicion as online hoaxes are common in the wake of such tragedies.
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Other letters claiming to be from Zodiac turn up periodically, most of them hoaxes, and new theories and even confessions surface from time to time.
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Gizmodo's story further declared that Facebook had become hostile to conservative viewpoints when in fact conservative viewpoints — and conservative hoaxes — were thriving across the platform.
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In the real world, Russian towns and cities have received a wave of mysterious bomb threats, all of which have turned out to be hoaxes.
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We can't even be sure who's human online anymore, let alone guess a little-known writer's intentions in a world full of hoaxes and trolls.
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Whether shooting victims' families can get relief from the hoaxes and harassment others have put them through has been an ongoing question for years now.
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But even though Facebook has placed warnings on some vaccine hoaxes related to the Wuhan coronavirus, the content isn't flagged as false on every platform.
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While the word's exact origins are unknown, it is defined by an exciting history of hoaxes and spectacles dating as far back as the 1750s.
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YouTube is tackling hoaxes and other problems that plague it in much of the developed world, but it's falling short in a booming new market.
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The fearmongering grew, sometimes perpetuated by authorities themselves but largely by the media, which has tended to report the clown hoaxes with straight-faced solemnity.
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When those creators propagate hoaxes and conspiracy theories as part of a financially motivated growth strategy, it seeps in with some percentage of their audience.
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Zardulu is known for espousing a belief that pranks, hoaxes, and the manufacturing of virality are all part of the creation of modern-day mythology.
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In recent years, social media hoaxes have routinely followed in the immediate wake of mass shootings — in Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Paris, Nice, and elsewhere.
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A YouTube star famous for pranks and hoaxes was kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight Wednesday after more than 20 people complained, the airline said.
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In 2016, 16 of the 6,121 reported hate crimes turned out to be hoaxes, according to Levin, who's also a former New York City police officer.
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Videos published by InfoWars that insinuate other school shootings were hoaxes still remain on the platform, while other conspiracy videos from separate channels are being removed.
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Hoaxes and conspiracy theories flooded the internet in the immediate aftermath, as did questions—since answered—around how Paddock was able to fire at automatic speeds.
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"Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other," Zuckerberg said in a post on Saturday.
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They were found to be hoaxes, as was another threat that forced the evacuation of a center in San Diego on Tuesday morning, according to police.
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Facebook has been under pressure to more closely police hoaxes, fake news and other controversial content, although the concerns have had little impact on its finances.
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Introducing TRACKBACK, a new series from BuzzFeed News reporters Jane Lytvynenko and Craig Silverman exploring the rise of conspiracy content, online hoaxes, and social media scams.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly denied that hoaxes have any effect on public opinion among users, but it seems not everybody at the company agrees.
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In December, facing criticism that hoaxes and fake news stories spread too easily on Facebook in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election on Nov.
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Since becoming the faces of a nationwide movement to change gun laws, the Parkland teens have become subject to truly absurd internet hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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Platforms like WhatsApp, which has more than 200 million users in the country, have enabled rumors, hoaxes, and misinformation to spread more rapidly than ever before.
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Oddly, Zuckerberg was directly confronted about his views on vaccines since Facebook works to hide vaccine hoaxes and avoid recommending groups spreading unverified information about them.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia on Saturday lifted temporary social media restrictions that were imposed to stop online hoaxes during violence around the announcement of official election results.
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Whether it is the work of domestic trolls or hostile foreign interests, disinformation campaigns have spread like viral hoaxes, and they have had serious social impact.
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Let me rephrase: There's an undeniable thrill in watching a woman pull off these hoaxes, and using her intelligence and skill to get what she wants.
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But the platform is an effective vector for the spread of fake news and hoaxes leading to concerns from both the government and citizens at large.
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Meanwhile, Facebook's machine learning algorithm has improved its accuracy and speed, so the social network will now have it send more potential hoaxes to fact checkers.
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Even though Facebook has made its effort to stamp out false stories well known, many new sites emerged in 2017 to publish hoaxes and false stories.
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Lyons from Facebook said the company recently took steps to prevent people from using these sites to spread hoaxes, rather than to simply prank their friends.
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Since then, there have been an increasingly large number of clown sightings—and hoaxes—in cities and suburbs across the country and even across the Atlantic.
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It's not just the effects this could have on celebrities and other public figures who already are subjected to all manners of manipulative forgeries and hoaxes.
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The move comes as Facebook has faced intense scrutiny for its role in spreading misinformation, hoaxes and propaganda in the wake of last year's presidential election.
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Of course, there have also been several Internet hoaxes about similar-sounding stories, with the details ramped up, all of which have been disproved by Snopes.
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Zuckerberg said one of Facebook's core principles is "giving people a voice," and it preferred to limit the distribution of hoaxes rather than ban them outright.
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Facebook's refusal to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reigniting a debate over how tech platforms should respond to misinformation and hoaxes.
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Cook and his members promote the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism and spread conspiracies that outbreaks of preventable diseases are "hoaxes" perpetrated by the government.
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The hoaxes spreading through WhatsApp aren't inherently more complex than those spreading on Facebook's other services, but they exist within a uniquely different type of platform.
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Of course, Vigoda was well-known for being the subject of death hoaxes late in his life, dating all the way back to the early 1980s.
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More recently, she introduced the Internet Swatting Hoax Act, meant to close what Clark's office called "loopholes" in the laws against bomb hoaxes and similar threats.
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Now I'm not one to believe in internet hoaxes, but I am legitimately freaked out about what is happening on Danielle Bregoli's Instagram feed right now.
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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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"The man is suspected of sending a number of threats to Danish airports, shopping centers and hospitals," it said, without saying how he sent the hoaxes.
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Questions remain as to whether hoaxes could have been so well-targeted that they did, in fact, sway opinions of U.S. voters on candidates and issues.
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The spokesperson says Facebook's machine learning tools have gotten better at detecting more potential hoaxes to send to fact checkers since running tests for several months.
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Of course, our cherished First Amendment protections also enable falsehoods, hoaxes and other forms of misinformation to spread across the country and all around the world.
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Entire wars can break out online that have real-world consequences – see Pizzagate – and hoaxes flit through the memetic bloodstream like cancer, breaking down our defenses.
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Most of these hoaxes were given a push by Moore's wife, who will post seemingly anything online if it seems to bolster her husband's tarnished reputation.
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White has been a victim of a number of celebrity death hoaxes over the years, in which news of her death was widely and falsely reported.
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The bureau went on to lay out several events in which individuals' belief in hoaxes and conspiracy theories led to or could have led to violence.
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The White House falsely accuses the press of lying all the time, even though quite often it's the administration (especially the president) creating and spreading hoaxes.
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For News Feed, Facebook has developed systems to suppress fake stories, hoaxes and clickbait, and now it plans to roll out the same thing to Trending.
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But unlike most of the hoaxes that permeate social media these days, false rumors of sexual assault are rare, and lies tend to fall apart scrutiny.
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What may seem harder to account for is that the hoaxes are rarely detected by people who are from those communities or know something about them.
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In Brazil, which held its presidential election last month, viral rumors and hoaxes on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp claimed to show evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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What concerns me more are hoaxes and lies, some of which are harmless, and some of which stand to benefit the liar if people believe them.
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But we collected some of our favorite literary hoaxes, including "Naked Came the Stranger" (1969), which proved just how blindly people read tales involving explicit sex.
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Mr. Jones often exhorts his listeners to "investigate" the hoaxes and theories he advances, pleas that may have inspired criminal acts by some of his followers.
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Instagram is making major moderation changes in an attempt to help stem the flow of disinformation, hoaxes, and fake news regarding COVID-19 on its platform.
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The companies say they've made significant progress since 2016, when Russians were able to proliferate across the social networks, spreading blatant hoaxes and inflaming political tensions.
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The JCC Association of North America last month reported that 11 Jewish community centers experienced similar messages, all of which were later determined to be hoaxes.
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Highlighting the danger of so-called fake news in India, a series of hoaxes posted on social media has led to a spate of lynchings recently.
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Finding a note hidden inside packaging tends to attract worldwide attention, though the claims are difficult to verify and are often suspected of being activist hoaxes.
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The streaming service, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, said it was taking aim at videos claiming school shootings and other "well-documented violent events" are hoaxes.
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This work also reduces the distribution of content that violates our policies, since fake accounts often distribute deceptive material, such as false news, hoaxes, and misinformation.
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"We recognize that the same tools that give people more voice can sometimes be abused, by anyone, to spread hoaxes and misinformation," a company representative said.
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As more announcements get made through social media, it's becoming easier to pull off hoaxes by impersonating a public figure on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook.
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In the global media ecosystem, the threat to information is not censorship so much as an overwhelming flood of inputs — hoaxes, trolls, bots, clickbait, conspiracy theories.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Twitter that he's aware of hoaxes and outlined steps his company is taking to curb their spread on its platform.
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CNN asked Facebook if the platform has a policy relating to hoaxes and misinformation from conspiracy theories content and whether Facebook disciplines accounts that violate it.
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Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
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" "How this farce started and snowballed based on the actions of unelected bureaucrats into one the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the America should be discovered.
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Facebook has endured intense criticism for allowing fake news to proliferate on the News Feed, as some believe hoaxes and misleading stories helped Donald Trump get elected.
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The company has been under fire for months for the role it played in proliferating political hoaxes and misinformation in the months leading up to the election.
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But the attack is also notable for the content that hasn't spread online in the aftermath: fakes, hoaxes, and other forms of deliberate or accidental misleading information.
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Like with Parkland, two reporters were targets of harassment — Vice political writer Eve Peyser and one of the authors of this post, who was debunking the hoaxes.
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The election of Donald Trump drew intense scrutiny around Facebook's role in the public sphere, after dozens of hoaxes and misinformation campaigns went viral on the platform.
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Instagram will begin blocking hashtags that return anti-vaccination misinformation I wrote about some welcome changes Instagram made today to reduce the spread of anti-vaccination hoaxes.
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Lyons said Facebook's new machine learning technology will help it identify pages that are "likely" to spread financially motivated hoaxes based on past behavior and other signals.
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Internet speeds in the area had also been slowed as part of the efforts to prevent hoaxes spreading, a spokesman at the information and communication ministry said.
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As [the hoaxes] happened, more people were doing a lot more parties in their schools or churches or homes, which led to costume contests and everything else.
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The story about the morgue worker isn't the only hoax that keeps coming back, according to a BuzzFeed News review of recent hoaxes and their copycat versions.
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If you get your news from social media, as most Americans do, you are exposed to a daily dose of hoaxes, rumors, conspiracy theories and misleading news.
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Though Facebook's push to debunk fake news in India is a welcome one, misinformation and viral hoaxes are also rampant on WhatsApp, the messaging app Facebook owns.
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Indeed, 44 percent of U.S. adults have said they get news from Facebook, and its 1.8 billion users make the impact of hoaxes on the platform massive.
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The New York Times' Kevin Roose has been regularly tweeting the most viral stories and memes of the day, many of which are deceptive or outright hoaxes.
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WIRED will update this page throughout Election Day to track the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge online.
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But for those looking to confirm certain beliefs or those especially vulnerable to persuasion, consuming a barrage of hoaxes isn't just inescapable, it's part of the job.
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The problem: That model has drawn backlash from government officials and users alike, because it allows people to spread fake news and hoaxes on the platform intentionally.
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"Leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes," Bickert wrote.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's FSB security service said on Thursday Moscow knew the identities of four Russian citizens responsible for a wave of bomb hoaxes.
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The JCC Association of North America earlier this month reported that 11 Jewish community centers experienced similar messages, all of which were later determined to be hoaxes.
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Earlier this month, the JCC Association of North America reported that 11 Jewish community centers were targeted by bomb threats, all of which proved to be hoaxes.
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But at the end of the day, we live in an era of Photoshop hoaxes, a time when many a viral video turns out to be staged.
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Since that's effectively a reward for lying to people, one cool thing Twitter might want to try when users don't delete hoaxes is deleting them for them.
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I spend a fair amount of time on Reddit and 4chan and in private Facebook groups where a lot of hoaxes and viral rumors tend to originate.
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Over the following days, he released a barrage of vehement denials about the allegations from Ms. Zervos and nine other women, calling them fabrications, lies and hoaxes.
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The site weeds out obvious hoaxes and joke submissions, and uses technology like IP tracking to help stop users from submitting multiple reviews of the same restaurant.
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Mr. Jones has achieved infamy and financial success for spreading lies, such as many mass shootings are government hoaxes and Democrats run a global child-sex ring.
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"Hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes," he wrote, arguing that not all students using the slur should be labeled racist.
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As Zuckerberg notes in his speech, Facebook works to stop things like hoaxes and medical misinformation from going viral, even if they're otherwise anointed by the algorithm.
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Facebook developed a tool that would battle against fake news and hoaxes in the News Feed but never released it, a bombshell report from Gizmodo alleged Monday.
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In Congressman Devin Nunes' opening remarks, he argued that this was just another example of news media and Democratic "information warfare" spreading "hoaxes" that delegitimize the president.
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"After three years of sinister witch hunts, hoaxes, scams, the House Democrats are trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans," he said.
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The story was ranked the No. 1 April Fools' hoax of all time by the Museum of Hoaxes website -- a fine source for all things foolish. 2.
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The social network has come under harsh criticism for its failure to act against news hoaxes that may have influenced voters' opinions in the U.S. presidential election.
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In coming months, Wojcicki said, conspiracy videos will start including text boxes, dubbed "information cues," that link to third-party sources that debunk the hoaxes in question.
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Evidence collaging: Combining information from different, often not-credible sources, into an easily shareable social image that looks like fact-based evidence for hoaxes or conspiracies theories.
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Early this year, France proposed legislation to curb the spread of hoaxes and fake news, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2017 French presidential election.
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On April 1, Alan Abel will discuss a half-century of hoaxes and satiric scams he's pulled off, from prank political campaigns to faking his own death.
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During the initial dustup over "fake news," Google and its parent company Alphabet got less flack for spreading hoaxes than social media platforms like Facebook and Reddit.
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One day, sadly, he will die, but since he's the target of frequent death hoaxes, a whole lot of people won't believe the news when they read it.
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"Spammers make money by masquerading as well-known news organizations, and posting hoaxes that get people to visit to their sites, which are often mostly ads," Mosseri said.
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While both MUFON and NUFROC take online reports of sightings, MUFON field investigators examine reports and attempt to filter out hoaxes, mistakes, and objects that can be identified.
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It has been two months since Facebook said it would crack down on anti-vaccination hoaxes, but journalists have continued to find them all over the company's platforms.
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Trump, who during the election campaign regularly dismissed the job numbers and the unemployment rate as "phony" and "one of the biggest hoaxes," welcomed January's acceleration in hiring.
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The examples of hoaxes, misinformation and violence in India suggest that the capacity to manipulate people online is even greater when they first gain access to digital communications.
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False rumors, manipulated photos, decontextualized videos and audio hoaxes have become campaign ammunition, going viral on the platform with no way to monitor their origin or full reach.
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"We will publish examples of propaganda hoaxes from various media outlets and give links to sources," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, according to The New York Times.
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"We believe that false news, misinformation and the spread of hoaxes are issues best tackled collectively: by government, civil society and technology companies working together," the letter says.
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Facebook also said it will not display ads on fake news sites and started working with fact-checking news organizations to stamp out hoaxes and other false content.
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A person with close knowledge of Facebook's efforts to fight misinformation told BuzzFeed News the company is aware of the problem of copycat version of hoaxes going viral.
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It's tempting to view the changes as a potential solution to the way hoaxes and propaganda can spread virally on Facebook, even after a year of heavy criticism.
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As for Trump, he has shown himself to have a real taste for hoaxes and sycophants, eagerly embracing whatever set of "facts" meets the needs of the moment.
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Critics have accused the social network of…Read more ReadZuckerberg spoke out after several outlets criticized the proliferation of fake news and hoaxes that have spread on Facebook.
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Barriss was accused of phoning in bomb threats years before the most recent incidents, but there was no apparent link before now between the two high-profile hoaxes.
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And, in cases where those hoaxes have created an imminent threat of harm, Facebook — as of last week, in just two countries — will remove it from the platform.
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As Wired notes in its coverage of SurfSafe, it's a lack of digital literacy that makes people vulnerable to fake news and viral hoaxes in the first place.
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The NYSE and its operator are trusted financial institutions, while cryptocurrency, though it has seen some successes, has been marred by hoaxes and even reports of price manipulation.
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"Reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources," Stocky writes.
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Kenyans are preparing to vote for a president, lawmakers and local officials on Tuesday in an election already marred by online hoaxes and fake stories from all sides.
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Earlier this month, the JCC Association of America reported that 11 Jewish community centers were menaced by bomb threats, all of which were eventually proved to be hoaxes.
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But it's faced extra scrutiny since last year's presidential election brought to light the role it played in the outbreak of hoaxes, misinformation and conspiracies infecting web media.
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Facebook has been taking various steps to crack down on misinformation and hoaxes on its platform since the election, but these changes could be among the most significant.
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We always work to make News Feed more meaningful and informative, and that includes examining the quality and accuracy of items shared, such as clickbait, spam and hoaxes.
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The longer that Facebook remains a right-leaning playground for hoaxes and conspiracy theories, the more opportunity there is for a company to disrupt Facebook from the left.
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Albright has highlighted how Instagram has also become one of the worst platforms in terms of how it addresses conspiracy theories and hoaxes, which The Hill has reported.
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The Unreal World One category of authorial deception to add to Louis Menand's survey of literary hoaxes is the false-memory narrative (A Critic at Large, December 10th).
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Were it not for the literary hoaxes early in his career, perhaps he would never have been inspired to push the boundaries of fiction in his later masterpiece.
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Saleh's hoaxes include videos such as Saleh smuggling himself on to an airline via packing himself on a suitcase, a stunt that was quickly disproved by the airline.
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Anti-vaccination hoaxes are not new, though they've been top of mind lately thanks to a recent measles outbreak in Washington state, with 71 confirmed cases so far.
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Why it matters: The new company, Bakkt, could lend some legitimacy to cryptocurrency, which has "been marred by hoaxes and even reports of price manipulation," per the Verge.
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Tech companies should act decisively to prevent hoaxes and misinformation from spreading on their platforms, even if it means hiring thousands more moderators or angering some partisan organizations.
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While some hoaxes can be completely debunked, a greater amount of content, including from mainstream sources, often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or omitted.
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So too our natural curiosity about the unknown can lead us astray on a website that leads us too much in the direction of lies, hoaxes and misinformation.
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Welcome to Can't Handle the Truth, a weekly column looking back at the past seven days of fake news and hoaxes that have spread thanks to the internet.
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But even that tally may be inflated; according to Best, studies that followed up on such reports found that the vast majority — 95 percent or more — were hoaxes.
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Meanwhile, on Snapchat, the company prohibits partners from sharing misinformation, relying on its closed platform to prevent the false news hoaxes that have plagued open platforms like Facebook.
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None of the 33 members of the group chat revealed their identity, locations, or ages, saying they have been spreading hoaxes since 2016 and met on the internet.
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I feel less like screaming with frustration and more like crying, because I now recognize the misinformation and hoaxes about the coronavirus for what it's really about: fear.
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When it comes to the coronavirus, the spread of misinformation hoaxes and rumors about the outbreak in China have plagued YouTube and Facebook while adapting to new platforms.
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"While we are creating jobs and killing terrorists, congressional Democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, crazy with hunts and deranged partisan crusades," Trump told thousands of supporters here.
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The hoaxes surrounding the coronavirus have become so prevalent that "uncensored" subreddits about the outbreak are being created for users on Reddit who want to share the theories.
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Hoaxes spread along with the panic As the coronavirus outbreak grows, officials in several US states are cracking down on false information about the spread of the disease.
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One of the most popular WhatsApp hoaxes of this year featured the purported beheading of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani soldiers with a chain saw and a knife.
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We have to re-examine America's poisoned information environment... MY POINT: It's easier than ever to go down digital rabbit holes of hate and conspiracy theories and hoaxes.
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The emergence of the technology opens up a new world of hoaxes driven by doctored audio or video, and threatens to shake faith in the media even further.
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"If your only agenda is negative — negative's a euphemism — crazy — based on lies, based on hoaxes, this is the nominee you get," Obama said about the Republican leaders.
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Welcome back to Can't Handle the Truth, our Saturday column looking at the past seven days of fake news and hoaxes that have spread thanks to the internet.
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"We can confirm that all three alerts are hoaxes, however, we cannot underestimate the impact these incidents have had on our community," police said here early on Tuesday.
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Hoaxes can be a legitimate (if lame) form of marketing, but pointing at your hoax and saying "this is not a hoax" is the bad kind of lying.
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And to the extent that those features are being used illegally, it owes us at least as much action as it has taken to stop the spread of hoaxes.
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Meanwhile, the hoaxes that circulated online this week are less random, and a little more like the proverbial turtle on a fencepost: They didn't get there on their own.
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It came out of subterranean message board sites like 4chan [now a popular breeding ground for alt-right content], which are almost designed to engineer and perpetuate online hoaxes.
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Social media in particular has become a battleground, filled with disinformation, hoaxes, and conspiracies—some pushed by Russian trolls, we have learned, and some by our own homegrown harassers.
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In a letter to the Indian government, WhatsApp said it "cares deeply about people&aposs safety" and had taken steps to combat the scourge of fake news and hoaxes.
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"We believe that false news, misinformation and the spread of hoaxes are issues best tackled collectively: by government, civil society and technology companies working together," WhatsApp said, reports AFP.
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The agency has been set up amid rising concern over online misinformation and hoaxes ahead of simultaneous local elections set to take place across the country later this year.
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Fake news and viral hoaxes spread online because of our short attention spans and the deluge of new information that's constantly pouring into social media, a new study says.
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Trump also has been a frequent critic of the January 2017 intelligence assessment, repeatedly calling investigations into Russian interference "hoaxes" and echoing Russia's defense against accusations of foreign meddling.
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The victims' families say that information will prove that Jones didn't believe in his own hoaxes, and intentionally exploited the families and their tragedy to make millions of dollars.
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Copycat version of hoaxes and false stories were far more prevalent in 2017 than 2016, according to data and the experience of BuzzFeed News covering fake news both years.
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Karolin Schwarz, one of Hoaxmap's co-founders, says she's seen a steady stream of online hoaxes since the summer of 2015, when Germany saw an influx of asylum seekers.
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In fact, the analysis found that the 50 most viral fake news stories of 2017 generated more total shares, reactions, and comments than the top 50 hoaxes of 2016.
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Yeah, we watch hoaxes spread all the time, so it's certainly not a surprise that bots were a problem on Twitter or that they were a problem on Facebook.
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And it deprioritized news articles in favor of posts from friends and family — a mixed blessing, to be sure, but perhaps useful in the narrow case of discouraging hoaxes.
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Interestingly, Washington Post's fact-checking team is one of the third-party fact checkers Facebook is tapping as part of its renewed effort to combat hoaxes on the platform.
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Facebook in December began rolling out a series of changes to stem hoaxes, clickbait and false news stories like those that spread ahead of last year's U.S. presidential election.
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In December 2015, it said so it again: One example of a type of viral post that people report they don't enjoy seeing in their News Feed are hoaxes.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Daniel Frisiello, 25, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of mailing a threat to injure, and six counts of false information and hoaxes.
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The company has said that despite taking down videos and other content pushing hoaxes and banning repeat offenders, Jones's Infowars account doesn't qualify for a ban from the platform.
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From this week's bomb scares to news of a migrant caravan slowly making its way toward the U.S., misinformation and hoaxes have run rampant on most social media platforms.
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"For months, we have referred these hoaxes to law enforcement, but only recently has there been a renewed interest to address the issue," Gillespie told CNN in a statement.
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Blankenstein, director of CFPB's supervision division, admitted to writing anonymous blog posts in 2004 calling most hate crimes hoaxes and questioning whether using the n-word was inherently racist.
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Police have confirmed that many of the articles were part of a campaign organized by Saracen, an online syndicate in the business of creating and spreading hoaxes for profit.
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There were also specific targeting options on Facebook, terms like "vaccine controversies," that let advertisers narrow in on users the social network thought might be interested in those hoaxes.
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The most popular hoaxes, like the idea that vaccinations can lead to autism, have been resoundingly disproven by numerous large studies and refuted by the world's top health organizations.
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Welcome to Can't Handle the Truth, our new Saturday column looking back at the past seven days of fake news and hoaxes that have spread thanks to the internet.
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"I had a hunch that they would often deal with race," Mr. Young said, but he was struck how often the hoaxes he found came back to the subject.
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On Hannity's March 13 show, for example, the host shifted from bashing dire warnings about the virus as Democratic hoaxes to praising the administration's strong response to the crisis.
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Among the other books also included below: a new history of hoaxes, a posthumous collection of essays by Oliver Sacks and an astronaut's memoir of time spent in space.
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It takes hordes of journalists and fact checkers willing to police the platform for false news stories and hoaxes so that they can be contained before spreading to millions.
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Although there is a seemingly endless stream of sources spreading misinformation about the Wuhan coronavirus around the web, we've identified and debunked a few of the most pervasive hoaxes.
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Trump, the greatest political beneficiary of the Russian aggression against democracy, denies the aggression is happening and calls investigations of the crime nothing more than fake news and hoaxes.
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It may be a boon for privacy, but it's a proven breeding ground for viral hoaxes and fake news that spread in more intimate circles — sometimes with deadly consequences.
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In his book, "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News," author Kevin Young documents Barnum's pleasure in the use of a good humbug.
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Mr. Saleh, who has more than two million subscribers on YouTube, has a history of perpetuating video hoaxes and pranks, some of them aimed at exposing stereotypes about Muslims.
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These examples are just the tip of the misinformation iceberg that the coronavirus pandemic has caused, with hoaxes featuring everything from secret labs to government plots and magical cures.
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Welcome back to a special year-end edition of Can't Handle the Truth, our column looking at the fake news and hoaxes that have spread thanks to the internet.
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Welcome back to Can't Handle the Truth, our Saturday column looking back at the past seven days of fake news and hoaxes that have spread thanks to the internet.
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Russian election interference, hoaxes reaching voters, violence on Facebook Live, the ever-present issue of cyberbullying and now the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal have created a convergence of backlash.
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Levin's numbers from 2018 still aren't finalized, but he's estimated that 7,750 hate crimes were reported nationwide last year, and so far, just seven have turned out to be hoaxes.
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The company has been battered in the press since last year's presidential election, when hoaxes and misinformation spread virally on the platform and likely contributed to Donald Trump's surprise victory.
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Because on the one hand, I think everyone would basically agree that you don't want the content that's getting the most distribution to be flagrant hoaxes that are tricking people.
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The result is a continuous targeting of institutions — including news outlets, law enforcement officials, and elected officials — by either fostering disbelief in them or getting them to repeat the hoaxes.
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The company said vaccine hoaxes will appear less frequently across people's News Feeds, public pages and groups, private pages and groups, search predictions, and in recommendation widgets around the site.
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The updated guidelines provide clearer examples of low-quality results, including "misleading information, unexpected offensive results, hoaxes and unsupported conspiracy theories," engineering VP Ben Gomes wrote in the blog post.
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In spite of efforts by Facebook to stop the spread of false content on its platform, unscrupulous publishers are scoring hits by copying and pasting old hoaxes into new websites.
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Black and POC wins are an affront to similar status quos of alleged hate crime hoaxes, hate mongering, and the inbred morons that weaponize them to ignore issues of race.
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And even if it could do all this, which would knock out the most obvious misinformation and hoaxes, it would eventually run up against edge cases that confuse even humans.
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The company is also expanding its efforts in downranking fake news by using machine learning to demote foreign Pages that are spreading financially-motivated hoaxes to people in other countries.
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Facebook will continue to offer a platform to Holocaust deniers, Infowars, and other publishers of hoaxes on the assumption that they are sincere in their beliefs, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
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These features, along with ad campaigns, are designed to help WhatsApp's 1 billion users better identify fake news, hoaxes, and other false information that can spread via the messaging app.
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Of course, none of that beats Google, which has for years now have tried to outdo everyone else in the space with a handful of outrageous hoaxes and hilarious jokes.
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As an effort to curb misleading information and hoaxes on its platform, Facebook announced Monday it will no longer allow pages that repeatedly share false news to advertise on Facebook.
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Instead of being banned from Facebook, Infowars and sites like it that constantly and purposely share dangerous hoaxes and conspiracy theories should be heavily down-ranked in the News Feed.
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But while this spam idea might be a refreshing rhetorical framing, I'm still a fake news alarmist, because the current wave of internet hoaxes are downright vicious in their parasitism.
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His appointee to oversee this work is Eric Blankenstein, a man who once said that most hate crimes are hoaxes and wasn't sure if saying the N-word was racist.
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But this is April Fools' Day, the worst day of the year and a fertile ground for hoaxes, which are so numerous that many news organizations are live-blogging them.
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QAnon followers skew shockingly old for a conspiracy theory that began on 24chan, the infamous online forum known mostly for its shitposting teens and long history of supporting internet hoaxes.
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In an open letter to the tech mogul published on Poynter, the International Fact Checking Network suggested that the company work to enable its users to better identify viral hoaxes.
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The Washington Post last Wednesday revealed the blog posts Blankenstein had written in 85033 dismissing most hate crimes as hoaxes and questioning whether using the n-word was inherently racist.
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And will we all be able to clean up the piles of lies, hoaxes and other dung that have been hurled so freely in this hyper-charged, fact-free election?
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" Some of the hoaxes are just harder to see CNN Business's own Donie O'Sullivan pointed out to me that "a lot of the conversation has moved into closed Facebook groups.
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Next week, Mr. Young will publish "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News," a history, biography and, very nearly, catalogue raisonné of the hoax.
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But she said simply releasing graphic and disturbing videos served little purpose beyond offering fodder to conspiracy theorists who dismiss mass shootings as hoaxes or as staged "false flag" events.
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The WeChat messaging app, which is owned by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent, has been allowing ordinary people to track the virus — as well as to pass along hoaxes and misinformation.
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In an open letter to the tech mogul published on Poynter, the International Fact Checking Network suggested that the company work to enable its users to better identify viral hoaxes.
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For example, Adam Mosseri, the vice president of product management, said last week that the company would take a more proactive approach to hoaxes, but only because of user feedback.
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Their goal is to look for information anywhere easily accessible on the web that can either contradict the most obvious online hoaxes or do the opposite, and corroborate other claims.
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Barnum's hyperbole, his willingness to bend the truth when promoting his entertainments, his artful manipulation of the press, never mind his participation in outright hoaxes, invite comparisons with Mr. Trump.
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But these are not the actual locations of the companies themselves, making it impossible for the BBB or the FTC to identify the people at the center of these hoaxes.
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Major platforms like the Facebook-owned WhatsApp have become a problem for authorities in India as the viral spread of hoaxes from anonymous uploaders has led to violence and vigilante mobs.
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While the election was the topic of many of this year's fraudulent claims, election-related hoaxes probably weren't the only ones you were stunned (or, perhaps, happy) to learn were false.
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CNET: There's a lot at stake not only for democracy, but for Facebook, which has seen Russians, Iranians and even Americans exploit the social network to spread hoaxes and sow discord.
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A series of homemade explosive devices were sent to key political figures around the US. Almost as soon as the news broke, hoaxes and misleading information started spreading on social media.
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Per the Side Thorn website, the pair believe that all recent mass shootings and bombings in the United States and around the world are "drills" and hoaxes arranged by the government.
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The issue of "fake news" emerged with a vengeance after last year's US presidential election, when the spread of viral hoaxes may have contributed to Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.
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WhatsApp is putting limits on message forwarding after violent mobs that fell for rumors and hoaxes spreading through the instant messenger killed more than a dozen people in India this year.
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With the news alerts constantly blowing up our phones, the latest Trump tweets, and the hoaxes that seem to spread faster than wildfire, it's getting harder and harder to keep up.
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Facebook responded to this by rolling out a new feature that it says can identify multiple versions of the same false story, thereby automatically reducing the distribution of any copycat hoaxes.
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From March through December 2016, Hoaxmap actually saw a decrease in refugee-related hoaxes, but Schwarz says they've increased since the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin late last year.
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In doing so, he's attempted to absolve the company of any blame but has offered no proof to support his claim that hoaxes and fake news aren't running rampant on Facebook.
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He toyed with the idea of pitching an Ong's Hat movie, he made other ARGs, and he became embroiled in other controversial internet hoaxes, like the John Titor time travel saga.
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The company said it would work with third-party organizations to promote "news literacy" and help users decide which sources are trustworthy and would also continue to work on curbing hoaxes.
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Blankenstein, appointed by Mulvaney to oversee CFPB racial discrimination cases, wrote anonymously in 2004 that most reported hate crimes were hoaxes and questioned if using the n-word was inherently racist.
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The New York Times reported last month that the feed promoted the spread of fake news by preventing journalists and authorities from placing stories that debunked hoaxes into the News Feed.
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A small fraction of hoaxes last longer, but the ones that do survive the initial patrol by editors "attract significant attention and a large number of pageviews," according to the study.
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Whether that's on combating hate speech, hoaxes and "inauthentic" content, or IDing and blocking state-level disinformation campaigns — thereby shifting attention off the deeper question of whether Facebook is doing enough.
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He says that he was drawn to the subject of hoaxes because he was interested in the games they play with readers' expectations—that is, for old-fashioned literature-professor reasons.
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YouTube has been particularly hard hit with hoaxes suggesting ways to prevent the virus and ads seeking to capitalize on it, both of which the company has been working to block.
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But scrutiny of the site has heightened since the surprise election of Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday, with critics alleging the site helped spread lies via fake news stories and hoaxes.
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He said the government had asked social media companies to work with authorities to create a standard operating procedure that would allow fake news and hoaxes to be flagged and resolved.
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Fact Check WASHINGTON — President Trump's order for a cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base, which has alienated some of his supporters, has fueled speculation of hidden motives and hoaxes.
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The criminal complaint filed by US Attorney Andrew Lelling's office said Daniel Frisiello, 24, was charged with five counts of mailing a threat and five counts of false information and hoaxes.
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Creators of hoaxes don't really care about the content or substance of the fake message; they're not trying to change anyone's beliefs or affect their behavior beyond manipulating them into clicking.
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Trying to stem the tsunami of hoaxes, scams, and outright fake stories was like playing the world's most doomed game of whack-a-mole, or like battling the Hydra of Greek myth.
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This cycle — of journalists, researchers, and others spotting — with the simplest of search queries — hoaxes and fake news long before the platforms themselves repeats itself after every major mass shooting and tragedy.
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According to BuzzFeed, the studio launched five local fake news sites to host banner ads for the film, while also adding references to the movie into hoaxes about President Trump and vaccinations.
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White's email emphasized that the company wants to work with its partners "to surface these hoaxes sooner" due to the lag time between a hoax being published and the label being applied.
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"Copycat hoaxes have been an increasing trend in 2017 and also into 2018," Tessa Lyons, a product manager in charge of News Feed integrity initiatives, told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview.
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"When I look over the list, honestly, I feel like the things we launched in the last quarter in particular are going to address at the viral hoaxes you identified," she said.
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German politicians have warned of the effect that fake news could have on federal elections slated for this fall, following a spate of fabricated articles and hoaxes during the US presidential election.
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WhatsApp groups in India are rife with jokes, sexist humor, and viral videos, but hoaxes and misinformation forwarded through the app have also become an engine for India's own fake news crisis.
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After all, while there's been plenty of social media foolishness and hoaxes across the country, there have also been a few more sinister incidents, all of them seemingly feeding off each other.
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Facebook's fight against fake news, hoaxes, and spammers will never be over for good, but the company is doing its best to keep up the pressure on bad actors on its network.
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"This Russia inquiry is one of the biggest hoaxes we have seen in our lifetimes," Farage said, scoffing at claims about his own links to Russia or Russia's supposed role in Brexit.
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First, it was outright dismissal; next came the arms-length pondering; then, finally, was a full throated and multi-faceted war on the plague of hoaxes and falsehoods being disseminated on Facebook.
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The change comes as part of a multi-pronged attack on hoaxes, clickbait, spam and low-quality sites following criticism that Facebook didn't prevent fake news from influencing the 2016 presidential election.
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And while Clinton's most troubling issues involved classified information, if Trump administration staffers are falling for benign hoaxes this time, there's no guarantee they won't fall for something more ominous next time.
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Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Facebook initially downplayed the issue of fake news after the U.S. presidential election where it was criticized for allowing pro-Trump hoaxes to proliferate.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police detained a man on Monday suspected of a spate of bomb hoaxes that forced the evacuation of two provincial airports and two shopping malls earlier in the day.
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Yet she is supposedly healthy and vital, a true wonder child in a century famous for its wonders (many of which, like the Cardiff Giant and the Davenport Tablets, later proved hoaxes).
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A 2016 study by University of Maryland and Stanford University researchers explored how hoaxes, disinformation, and "bullshit" (a scientific term, in this case) enter Wikipedia, and how the platform handles malevolent edits.
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In the last three months, colleges, law enforcement agencies, gun stores and municipal offices in more than a dozen states have received emailed threats that were later deemed to be hoaxes. 3.
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Joe Nickell, a paranormal investigator and skeptic, says several of the Mothman sightings were hoaxes that followed media buzz, including a group of construction workers who tied flashlights to red helium balloons.
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But it can be hard to separate the news from the geyser of other stuff: hoaxes, non sequiturs, memes about mandarin ducks , doctored footage of CNN reporters, and Kanye West's latest opinions.
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Early hoaxes validated: a young poet tracing a false genealogy between himself and the greats; Joice Heth providing a direct line between her 19th-century spectators and the father of the country.
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Pinterest, like other tech companies, will report any count-related hoaxes to the U.S. Census Bureau so that the agency can debunk them and ensure they're not spreading on other social networks.
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False claims of victimization taint legitimate episodes of violent bigotry and discrimination, which is perhaps why those who are honorably committed to confronting prejudice seem loath to acknowledge hoaxes when they occur.
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But now lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. and European Union are starting to chip away at those protections, driven by growing concern about hoaxes, hate speech and other online bad behavior.
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Facebook said last week that it would not take down misinformation about vaccines, but would try to make such material harder to find and would stop accepting advertisements that advanced vaccine hoaxes.
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Following this, it is alleged that misleading information and hoaxes about the nature of riots and people who participated in them began to spread on social media services, according to local media reports.
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"We believe that false news, misinformation and the spread of hoaxes are issues best tackled collectively: by government, civil society and technology companies working together," WhatsApp said in the letter, according to BuzzFeed.
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Low-quality news (whether outright hoaxes or just sloppy journalism) will just naturally get less exposure because people will only see it after scrolling through the higher-quality news their friends have shared.
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" In other instances, Trump suggested the unemployment number could be anywhere between 18% and 42%, calling the official number everything from "total fiction" to "one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics.
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Lastly, Facebook said it will continue efforts to "reduce the spread of news hoaxes — including ways for people to report them more easily and new efforts to disrupt the financial incentives for spammers."
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The news comes as Facebook has been under increasing pressure to remove anti-vaccine propaganda from its network of sites, where its recommendation algorithms have helped to create large audiences for the hoaxes.
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READ: The greatest April Fools' hoaxes ever Whether you love or hate it, here's a catalog of the best, and worst, of the Internet, to help you navigate through April Fools' Day 2016.
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More recent hoaxes have exposed lax standards of peer review across low-quality journals in disciplines from biomedicine to computer science by submitting obviously flawed papers, some consisting of gibberish written by bots.
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Granted, Facebook has done much to prevent the viral spread of hate, hoaxes and health scares; they've hired an army of 35,000 to "remove content when it could cause real danger," Zuckerberg said.
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Whether it's a fake picture of a shark swimming in the street or a mall, or being sucked up into a hurricane, sharks are the most common hoaxes that come up during hurricanes.
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In the hours after the attack, an unverified Facebook profile for the suspect emerged with a post referencing the anonymous online forum 4chan, which is often the source of online hate and hoaxes.
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Facebook did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment on why hoaxes about the photo are spreading on the platform even as they were debunked by Snopes, Facebook's fact-checking partner.
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Facebook's major effort to stop the spread of false articles on its platform did not result in less engagement for the most viral hoaxes in 2017, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News.
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As much as this clown craze has been rife with hoaxes and false alarms, there have also been some legitimate incidents where costumed people have been caught trying to intimidate or attack others.
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NeoGAF launched in 2004 as a spinoff of the Gaming-Age Forums, and it's become a major source of leaks and insider knowledge — as well as meticulously constructed hoaxes — in the gaming world.
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News hoaxes aren't new, but there's a growing sense that social media, particularly Facebook, has made it easier for these stories to spread, and for fake news to become a viable business model.
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Until recently, video hoaxes were relatively rare since they are harder to pull off, but this is changing rapidly thanks to the rise of an AI technique called GANs, or generative adversarial networks.
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In that context, the fact that Trump—a consummate troll with a documented affinity for hoaxes and conspiracies—has resurrected the 20-year-old ghost of Vince Foster is not at all surprising.
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"This is an early test, and I'm going to keep a close eye on it to make sure we're fighting actual spam and hoaxes, and not limiting people's freedom of expression," Zuckerberg said.
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In the months leading up to Election Day, Twitter and Facebook were the feeding grounds for viral "news" stories floating conspiracies and hoaxes, many aimed at spreading negative false claims about Hillary Clinton.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly insisted that hoaxes, conspiracy theories and other false news doesn't have an effect on public opinion among users, but some of the company's employees don't seem as sure.
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The Washington Post reported last month that Blankenstein had written anonymous blog posts in 2004 arguing that most reported hate crimes were hoaxes and questioning whether using the N-word was inherently racist.
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But others, battle-worn from days of recent Twitter hoaxes targeting celebrities like Jack Black, Mark Zuckerberg, Katy Perry and Drake quickly turned skeptical: Something just didn't seem quite right about this one.
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The headline states Saleh is a celebrity (YouTube star), what his specific brand is (based on hoaxes and pranks) and adds the key word "claims" before Saleh's reason for being booted (speaking Arabic).
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"For months, we have referred these hoaxes to law enforcement, but only recently has there been a renewed interest to address the issue," said Maura Gillespie, a spokeswoman for Kinzinger, told the Journal.
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Vandals destroyed about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, and Jewish Community Centers in several U.S. cities received a number of bomb threats that were later determined to be hoaxes.
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In the age of global warming and election-hacking, do we really need a deep-dive rehash of hoaxes as thin and appalling as JT Leroy, the faked Hitler diaries and Stephen Glass?
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The change seems to have made the problem worse — earlier this year, Facebook redesigned the trending topics section again, after complaints that hoaxes and fake news stories were showing up in users' feeds.
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Such hoaxes represent a sliver of content shared on Facebook and because they are not limited to partisan views or politics, it is unlikely they could have changed the election's outcome, Zuckerberg said.
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Jones, according to the Sentinel, has linked Halbig to more than 85033,000 emails claiming that the Sandy Hook massacre and other high-profile shootings were in fact hoaxes perpetrated by gun control advocates.
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"In the past we've taken steps to reduce spam and clickbait, and now we're approaching misinformation and hoaxes the same way," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, said during a conference call with investors.
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Dealing with that kind of disinformation, Gregory said, is more complicated, and will require both better policies and better tools, like reverse video searches, to help users and journalists debunk hoaxes more quickly.
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"While we are creating jobs and killing terrorists, the congressional Democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, crazy witch hunts and deranged partisan crusades," Trump told a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
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The world's largest social network and its competitors are under pressure from users and government authorities to make their services less addictive and to stem the spread of false news stories and hoaxes.
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Minimizing Hoaxes – Fewer posts that people flag as hoaxes or delete after posting because they are scams or deliberately false news Showing More Content From Friends More posts from friends instead of Pages, fewer stories about friends Liking or commenting on a post, more posts from the same sources for new users without much content in their News Feed More Stories You Spend Time Reading – More stories that other people spend significantly more time looking at in their News Feed than other stories.
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Until recently, video hoaxes were relatively rare since they are harder to pull off than fakes of still images, but this is changing rapidly thanks to the rise of GANs, or generative adversarial networks.
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In response to the criticism, Facebook introduced new steps to tackle hoaxes and fake news, including tapping into its mammoth user base to identify and report fake stories, and working with fact-checking organizations.
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Speaking of foreign election interference, Zuckerberg finally admitted that he was incorrect when he said that it was "a pretty crazy idea" that hoaxes on his website had the ability to influence an election.
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Last year, for instance, fake news and hoaxes dominated the Trending section on YouTube in India after the death of a popular Bollywood actor, forcing the company to increase human oversight of the section.
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At the end of February, for instance, hoaxes and misinformation that spread on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp stoked tensions in both India and Pakistan after both countries nearly went to war.
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Just like Zuck, Bat Boy had a penchant for terrorizing rural populations with hoaxes and iffy secondhand information, but at least Bat Boy didn't sit at the helm of a global network of influence.
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Following the Parkland school shooting in Florida, Cox said that schools in the district received a number of social media threats, many of which were determined to be hoaxes, while some resulted in arrests.
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Facebook says getting more reports from users will help it detect more hoaxes, although critics have argued that users often are not in a position to assess the validity of the links they see.
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" At the time, Loomer had more than a quarter of a million followers, and was known for "consistently [misidentifying] suspects during breaking news situations and, during the midterm elections, [spreading] hoaxes about voter fraud.
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After acknowledging the controversy and questions over FB's responsibility to prevent the spread of fake news and hoaxes, he said:Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic.
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The indictment charged Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles with conspiracy to make false reports, making false reports and hoaxes, cyberstalking, making interstate threats, making interstate threats to harm by fire and wire fraud.
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An EgyptAir official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said the hoaxes had caused numerous delays and cost the company a lot of money.
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Things are changing — 4chan isn't indexed on Google anymore, hoaxes and conspiracies aren't quite so funny, and we're in something of a moral panic about the state of almost all of our social platforms.
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On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Dearing said he personally "lean[s] towards the libertarian end of the spectrum" and argued that the market, not Facebook, should police hoaxes.
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We rigorously enforce our policies that prohibit harassment, including removing videos that target victims of violent events or their families and claim these events were 'hoaxes' or didn't happen, when flagged by our users.
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Since then, he's launched a failed bid for the Libertarian Party nomination, earned headlines for engineering various tech-related hoaxes, and been the subject of a Showtime documentary alleging he committed rape and murder.
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Today, Google announced that its advertising tools will soon be closed to websites that promote fake news, a policy that could cut off revenue streams for publications that peddle hoaxes on platforms like Facebook.
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In a post on his Facebook page over the weekend, he said that 99 percent of what people see on the site is authentic, and only a tiny amount is fake news and hoaxes.
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Twitter (TWTR), after fielding criticism for the number of fake accounts and hoaxes that arose during the shooting on YouTube's campus, defended its current policies while saying it would invest more in combating misinformation.
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It took months for him to admit that he was wrong to so cavalierly dismiss the importance of hoaxes spread on Facebook, many of them by people working on behalf of the Russian government.
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For example, Mr. Buffett made a persuasive argument that the obsession among corporate governance experts with appointing so-called independent directors to company boards was one of the great hoaxes perpetrated on public investors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the social network affected the U.S. presidential election, saying late Saturday it is "extremely unlikely" news hoaxes changed the outcome.
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It's April Fools' Day, so you're probably devoting more brainpower than you'd care to admit to potential hoaxes that your friends and co-workers – heck, even your favorite news organizations – might pull on you.
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As you are fully aware — fake news — there are people who troll hoaxes and there are people who are out to send confusion to the crowd, they are so prevalent in the current society.
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"We've focused our efforts on the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain," wrote Adam Mosseri, a vice president for news feed, in a blog post.
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But in an era of internet hoaxes, fabrications and the increased use of fake news around the world to further political agendas, Bana's Twitter account has also raised some questions of veracity and authenticity.
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"Democrats in Washington would rather pursue outrageous hoaxes and delusional witch hunts than pass the USMCA and deliver real stuff for American workers," Trump said in his Economic Club speech earlier in the week.
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Ahead we've lined up 9 of these brilliant to absurd April Fools' feats in order of hoaxes so good we wish we could buy them to tricks so bad we'd like to permanently unsee them.
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"Twitter is where Indian politics now happens, and where opinions are formed, and where the agenda is set," said Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News, a leading website that busts Indian fake news and hoaxes.
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Facebook today began rolling out new tools designed to prevent the spread of misinformation, weeks after the US presidential election results raised new questions about how viral hoaxes may have contributed to Donald Trump's victory.
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He's whittled his themes down to a brutally efficient, social media- and Fox News–friendly trio: Hate crimes are hoaxes, anti-fascists are the real fascists, and liberals are naive about Islam, which is violent.
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A significant lack of digital literacy can make people easily vulnerable to fake news and viral hoaxes, and as technology and AI get even smarter it's going to be more difficult to spot a fake.
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These hoaxes run the gamut between good-natured pranks and instruments of incredible cruelty, but none hold a candle to The Push, which again, is a show about manipulating human beings into murdering each other.
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Facebook launches Digital Literacy Library to help young people use the internet responsibly My colleague Dami Lee notes that Facebook's new "Digital Literacy Library" contains no information for spotting hoaxes or misinformation on social media.
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Sibrel is infamous in astronomy circles for claiming to be a journalist, who pushes a conspiracy theory that all of the NASA moon landings were hoaxes to fool the Soviet Union in the space race.
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Videos and photos only ever "appear" to show something, probably a wise guard against hoaxes, even if it's a serious tone to take for some of the lighter things that pop up in the feed.
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My feed is a minefield of fake news, hoaxes, and people who are throwing out opinions that are so trollish that they are basically begging their "friends" to tap out a quick rage-filled response.
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The N.F.L. became the latest victim in a string of recent high-profile Twitter hoaxes and hackings after its verified account sent a series of tweets saying that Roger Goodell, the league's commissioner, had died.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had begun "fact-checking" photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network.
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Because the victims of the purported telephone hoaxes were overwhelmingly from the mainland, Chinese officials demanded that the suspects be sent there, along with Chinese citizens also accused of involvement in the alleged fraud ring.
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But there is another type of misinformation to worry about on Tuesday: the type that strikes on Election Day, requiring voters to wade through rumors, hoaxes and misleading information on their way to the polls.
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In it, Kubrick put these speculators in check with a statement that gets to the heart of these supposed hoaxes: to sustain a conspiracy so vast for so long is beyond the pale of credulity.
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Mark E. HorowitzBrooklyn To the Editor: With the release of the Mueller report, so ends the great Russian collusion fairy tale, one of the most brazen political hoaxes and smear campaigns ever attempted in Washington.
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American-Israeli Teenager Is Sentenced to 10 Years for Bomb Hoaxes The 19-year-old from southern Israel was a minor when he began his campaign of terror, which forced school evacuations and grounded planes.
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Only Facebook has the data that can exactly reveal how fake news, hoaxes and misinformation spread, how much there is of it, who creates and who reads it, and how much influence it may have.
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The company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect possible hoaxes and send them to fact checkers, potentially showing fact-checking results under the original article.
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Twitter defended its current policies while saying it would invest more in combating misinformation, after fielding criticism for the number of fake accounts and hoaxes that arose during the shooting on YouTube's campus on Tuesday.
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Flynn had twice used Twitter to promote similar, only slightly less outrageous hoaxes in the past month, including a claim that Clinton's campaign manager takes part in occult rituals in which bodily fluids are consumed.
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There's been a lot written about gaslighting (lies that make you feel crazy) and the rise of fake news (hoaxes that displace facts), and much analysis of Trump as a reality star (an authentic phony).
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And since November, the Southern Poverty Law Center has collected nearly 1,800 bias incident reports (which includes hate crimes), a compilation that includes self-reported, police and news media reports, but also accounts for hoaxes.
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Oh, for the days when April Fools' Day hoaxes and pranks could cause lines outside liquor stores or prompt people to smell their TVs or choke telephone lines with complaints to the National Park Service.
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The Massacre That Wasn't showed that while Facebook, Google and Twitter take steps to combat nefarious hoaxes, they are already playing host to an organic correction movement led by ordinary users who are crowdsourcing reality.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia sent 200 more police officers to Papua on Tuesday and reined in internet speeds to "prevent hoaxes from spreading" as civil unrest persisted in some parts of the country's easternmost area, officials said.
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Earlier this month, it touted the War Room's efforts to clean up a torrent of hoaxes and misinformation spreading across Brazil on Facebook subsidiary and encrypted chat service WhatsApp before the country's October 28 runoff election.
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However, the five websites in question, Houston Leader, Indianapolis Gazette, NY Morning Post, Sacramento Dispatch, and Salt Lake City Guardian, all trade in hyper-partisan hoaxes that can churn tens of thousands of shares on Facebook.
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Eight Ways We're Preparing for Elections Across Africa Facebook describes what it's doing in advance of elections in Africa: In Nigeria, WhatsApp has launched its "Share Facts, Not Rumours" campaign to help increase awareness about hoaxes.
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Two alleged hackers in Southern California have been arrested and charged with multiple offenses following widespread Minecraft-related hoaxes that led to hundreds of schools in the UK and US being evacuated over false bomb threats.
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In early October, after the Las Vegas shooting, Facebook's crisis response page was flooded with spammy and hyperpartisan news, and Google search queries served up links to 4chan, which was spreading hoaxes to politicize the tragedy.
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Details: In addition to fact-checking posts that Facebook flags, Lead Stories will also use its own technology, called "Trendolizer," to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators.
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The threats, all of which appeared to be hoaxes, were received in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, the JCC Association of North America said.
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For Facebook, unwanted content can be anything from mild nudity to serious violence, but what's proved to be most sensitive and damaging for the company is hoaxes and misinformation — especially when it has a political bent.
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"We can confirm that all three alerts are hoaxes however we cannot underestimate the impact these incidents have had on our community," the police tweeted here Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler
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Additional threats were sent to other locations in the capital area, including Copenhagen Airport, but were deemed hoaxes from the start, partly because they were all from the same sender, the police told Danish broadcaster TV2.
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Today's update to News Feed reduces the distribution of posts that people have reported as hoaxes and adds an annotation to posts that have received many of these types of reports to warn others on Facebook.
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Facebook has tried to cut off financial incentives to fake news websites, is partnering with fact-checkers around the world to identify hoaxes, and has created a journalism project to work more closely with legitimate publishers.
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JAKARTA, May 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia has introduced curbs on social media in a bid to prevent the spread of hoaxes, some calling for violent post-election attacks, and quell two days of protests in the capital.
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Fact-checkers say hoaxes and calls for violence on social media networks have spiked since Tuesday when an official election count confirmed President Joko Widodo as the winner, a result contested by his challenger, Prabowo Subianto.
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Mr. Trump castigated the Democrats' "outrageous hoaxes and delusional witch-hunts" and talked about the importance of the rule of law, the day before the first public hearings of an impeachment inquiry that threatens his presidency.
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"We've actually spent a lot of time on News Feed trying to reduce [fake news and hoaxes'] prevalence in the ecosystem," Adam Mosseri, who leads work on Facebook's News Feed, said Wednesday at a tech conference.
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But he conceded that the product needs to improve its ability to block fake news, and says tech that Facebook built to squash hoaxes in the News Feed is being rolled out to Trending Topics now.
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In between trafficking hoaxes such as Hillary Clinton having a serious gum disease or that E. Jean Carroll cribbed her Trump rape allegation from Law & Order, Hoft made an appearance in the White House Briefing Room.
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Perhaps that's why their official campaign strategists, the officious operations they tacitly back and overzealous independent supporters together have produced a cocktail of negative ads, fake news and outright hoaxes to create buzz around their man.
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Facebook, after facing years of sustained and growing criticism of its role in everything from promoting political propaganda and hoaxes to massive data breaches and literal genocide, has signaled some major changes are in the works.
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Social media companies' tough stances on hoaxes and misleading or exploitative content during the COVID-19 pandemic stand in stark contrast to their approches when it comes to misinformation in other contexts, such as political discourse.
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JAKARTA, May 25 (Reuters) - Indonesia on Saturday lifted temporary restrictions on some social media functions aimed at stopping online hoaxes during recent violence linked to the announcement of official election results, a communications ministry official said.
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It was no great leap for paranoid delusions, like Pizzagate, or deliberate hoaxes, like the one about the Pope endorsing Trump, to pass muster on Facebook, because the design made all news-like items feel fungible.
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Any hint of war inspires fears of a draft (there were reportedly text message hoaxes playing off those fears in the last few days), but the notion of a draft has been politically toxic since Vietnam.
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"There's a lot more focus" on the ugly underbelly right now, Peretti said, partly thanks to reporters — including those at BuzzFeed — who have raised awareness about hoaxes, scams, privacy invasions and other maladies of the internet.
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We know the vast majority of these rumors are hoaxes not only because the recent clowns sightings have essentially all come to nothing but because this isn't the first time such hysteria has swept the country.
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"It's going to be a shit show," warned Brooke Binkowski, managing editor at Snopes, which is deploying about two dozen reporters and researchers for fact checking on internet hoaxes and other voting problems surrounding Election Day.
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Federated social networks offer some improvements for news distribution because they do not rely on the economic incentives that drive Facebook to select stories — like hoaxes — that generate lots of clicks but pollute the news ecosystem.
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The social network has increasingly come under fire in the wake of the presidential election as critics argue that the proliferation of fake news and hoaxes influenced the election — a dynamic the company did little to prevent.
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"When I look over the list, honestly, I feel like the things we launched in the last quarter [of 2017] in particular are going to address at the viral hoaxes you identified," she said at the time.
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The hoaxes included one about the wrong voting date, a false claim about Antifa members pretending to be Trump supporters by wearing MAGA hats, and an offer for free MAGA hats that linked to a pornographic clip.
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In honor of April Fools', which will no doubt rain down a torrent of inane corporatized "pranks" and toothless media hoaxes upon us all, let's look at one of the few people to do online pranking right.
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He also shared two previously unpublished hoaxes on Shark Tank star and cybersecurity executive Robert Herjavec and conservative personality Ann Coulter, and explained why he stopped cold turkey from an obsession that consumed him for five months.
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Other platforms like Facebook (FB) and its mobile messaging service WhatsApp have also added several measures to prevent hoaxes from going viral in India, partnering with fact-checking organizations and using artificial intelligence to detect problematic behavior.
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BuzzFeed complained after the shooting that Twitter was losing its usefulness as a source of credible news, counting 25 different people who hoaxers falsely claimed were the shooter, including a BuzzFeed journalist who was debunking the hoaxes.
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But this continued series of bigger and bolder hoaxes, especially in a country already on high alert for terrorist activity (and for good reason), creates a shitty scenario where crimes are committed in the name of clicks.
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As special marketing site Marketingland recently pointed out, Google has been addressing fake publishers that impersonate well-known news outlets or make up clickbait headlines — it but has not been looking at misinformation, hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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U.S.-based volcanologist Janine B. Krippner has been closely following developments since the alert status was first raised to the highest in September, and uses Twitter to share official information and bust myths and hoaxes circulating online.
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For-profit sites dedicated to propagating fake news had popped up everywhere—it was no longer just fun and games, as the faux news stories escalated from hoaxes about new flavors of Oreos, and became actually dangerous.
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A review of his past tweets found more than 100 in which he recirculated or commented on QAnon-related theories, including hoaxes about Satanism and pedophilia, and until recently he had the hashtag #Q in his profile.
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Twitter and Facebook have taken steps to try to curb political misinformation across their platforms in advance of the 2018 midterms, to avoid a repeat of the rampant hoaxes spreading on their platform during the 2016 election.
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In the 1830s, for example, we had newspapers publishing hoaxes as though they were news and religious evangelists going around the country advertising themselves in newspapers and performing as though it was a night at the theater.
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Why it matters: YouTube does not make the full list of conspiracies that it wishes to mediate with third-party information publicly available, but Buzzfeed News' reporting shows that climate-related hoaxes are part of that set.
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The project is Google's most ambitious attempt yet to improve the quality of information it shows to users at a time when tech companies have come under criticism for letting hoaxes and misinformation bloom on their services.
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Still, whoever runs Vox's Twitter account showed up and used their most grown-up internet voice to demand that the post be taken down, an understandable reaction given how quickly jokes can be misinterpreted and become hoaxes.
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"We're seeing hoaxes that are encouraging people who are sick to not get treatment, or to not protect the people around them ... we've seen one hoax that encourages people if you're sick to drink bleach," Zuckerberg said.
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WhatsApp is hoping to use the new service to broaden its fight against fake news during an election that's viewed as a key test of whether social media platforms can prevent the spread of rumors and hoaxes.
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