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Facebook Giving $100M To Small Businesses, Cracking Down On Fake Coronavirus News
Facebook said Wednesday will give $100 million to 30,000 small businesses in more than 30 countries in an effort to boost the global economy during the coronavirus pandemic and is working with the World Health Organization to remove fake news about the virus from its platforms.
“These are unprecedented times, maybe…
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Facebook Introduces News Tab In Effort To “Strengthen Democracy”
Facebook has launched tests of a “News” tab, which aims to limit the flow of phony stories populating the platform, declaring the ambitious initiative an effort to “strengthen democracy.”
The tab will not disrupt the normal functioning of the News Feed or items that appear therein, but it will aim to give users more…
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By Dade Hayes
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Donald Trump Predicts “Dishonest” Press Goes “Bust” In 6 Years After NYT’s Latest Blockbuster
President Donald Trump lashed out at the press this morning, bragging he personally has “kept many of them in business” and that in six years, which would be the end of his second term, “they all go bust.”
Triggering Trump’s Wednesday tweetstorm was a New York Times report, "Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation…
YouTube Seeks To Stop Conspiracy And Fake News From Rising In Its Rankings
YouTube is changing its new video recommendation algorithm to prevent promoting conspiracies and false information, according to a post on its official blog on Friday.
The company said it would target content that “comes close to – but doesn’t quite cross the line” of violating its rules. Some contend that YouTube…
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By Bruce Haring
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Donald Trump Directs Followers To “End” The “Fake News,” Returning “Peace”
President Donald Trump put a target on the backs of the press, via Twitter.
“The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country,” Trump tweeted one day after an alt-right subscriber gunned down 11 at…
Donald Trump Obsesses Over Press “Lunatics” In ‘Fox & Friends’ Interview
President Donald Trump’ latest Fox & Friends interview gave POTUS yet another chance to declare press the Enemy of the People. These day he thinks that’s about 80% of media.
“The New York Times cannot write a good story about me. They’re crazed. They’re like lunatics,” he whined to Ainsley Earhardt.
He ticked off…
President Trump Meets With NY Times Publisher On “Fake News”
President Donald Trump revealed today via his usual Sunday morning tweetstorm that he has met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the White House. The topic: fake news.
Trump has been a harsh critic of the media outlet, often referring to it as the “failing New York Times” in his attacks. The…
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POTUS Goes Twitter Bonkers: “Trump Recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES”
Donald Trump’s morning tweet-tantrum was particularly wild today, an apparently violent reaction to his administration’s Contraction-gate clean-up.
“Fake News Media is going Crazy! They make up stories without any backup, sources or proof. Many of the stories written about me, and the good people surrounding me, are…
InfoWars Dustup Exposes Facebook’s Unease With Conservative News Sites
Facebook is again drawing criticism for its handling of fake news on the platform — this time, around its tentative treatment of InfoWars, one of the Internet’s leading peddlers of conspiracy theories.
The social media giant’s executives said Alex Jones’ media operation, which traffics in bogus theories like one…
Donald Trump Tweets About Fake News; Prairie Doggin’ Trump Jr. Creates It
President Donald Trump tweet-complained again today about the “fake” New York Times and Washington Post – nothing unusual there, even if he did add what sounds like a legal-advice qualifier (“in my opinion”) and was oddly specific about how long the two publications will remain in business (“7 years!”).
“Twitter is…
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By Greg Evans
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Donald Trump Tells Media Who Melania’s Mean Jacket Message Targeted: Them
Melania Trump sent us more cryptic messages today – this time as she left the White House to visit some of the 2,300 immigrant children her husband had snatched from mothers who dared to defy him and illegally cross the southern border into Texas.
Melania's latest message was written on her back. "I really don't care…
Gallup Poll: 62% Of Americans Believe News Is Biased & 44% Say It’s Inaccurate
Two new Gallup polls have found that wide swaths of the American population believe that the media is biased, inaccurate and full of misinformation – just as President Donald Trump says. One poll found that 62% of U.S. adults believe that the news they see in newspapers, on television or hear on the radio is biased…
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By David Robb
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