Items tagged with fake news
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Jan 17, 2025
Though Apple Intelligence launched late last year, the company is still struggling to nail down core features that are part of its AI efforts. One of these features, notification summaries, is supposed to make it easier for users to digest...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been a rough, with features being released piecemeal through a series of updates to iOS 18, iPad OS 18 and macOS 15. Despite these operating systems having launched several months ago, there are still...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Dec 16, 2024
The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been less than stellar, with many of the features Apple promised not becoming available until well after the release of iOS 18. Now that some of these features are finally trickling out to users, the...
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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Jan 23, 2019
How far would you go to combat fake news? Microsoft has partnered with third-party startup NewsGuard to warn Edge mobile users about unreliable sites. However, one news site is not particularly pleased with their evaluation from NewsGuard...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Jan 25, 2018
Over the weekend we talked about the Facebook plan to survey its users to find out what news outlets are the most reliable, so that it can show users more news from those "trustworthy" sources. Anyone with visions of an in-depth survey...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 21, 2017
Have you read about the morgue employee who fell asleep on the job and was accidentally cremated? Or what about Denzel Washington referring to former President Barack Obama as the "criminal-in-chief?" These things did not happen, nor did...
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Brittany Goetting - Mon, May 08, 2017
Facebook is preparing for election season in the United Kingdom. The social media giant claims to have detected and deleted tens of thousands of “fake news” accounts. Facebook also plans to run advertisements in British newspapers about...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Apr 08, 2017
One of the biggest problems on the web is the proliferation of fake news. Online services and Internet users alike face the same challenge—trying to discern between what is a legitimate news story and one that is outright false (or a...
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Brittany Goetting - Mon, Mar 06, 2017
It appears that Facebook has a new challenger to the throne when it comes to being the king of fake news. Google has been accused of spreading fake news, particularly through its “featured snippets” feature.
If you have ever verbally...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 06, 2017
One of the biggest problems plaguing Facebook is the proliferation of fake news. While some headlines are obviously fictitious, that is not always the case, and it's an issue for a site that draws in billions of eyeballs everyday. In an...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 17, 2017
Are you looking for new reading material to keep you busy this weekend? If so, you might consider a 5,700-word manifesto written by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It's titled "Building Global Community" and it covers a range of...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Feb 12, 2017
The term "fake news" has been floating around a lot over the past year, largely fueled by events surrounding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Following Donald Trump's November victory, the world at large began to wonder if heavily...
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Brittany Goetting - Mon, Feb 06, 2017
The battle against fake news is being waged not only in North America, but on the European front as well. Google, Facebook, and a group of French news media outlets recently launched initiative “Cross Check” to squash fake news in France...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Jan 26, 2017
Facebook has been on a fake news hunt for the past few months. Its latest algorithm is intended to not only prevent fake news, but improve the overall Trending experience. The improvements are largely based on user feedback.
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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Jan 11, 2017
This past November, Mark Zuckerberg stated that Facebook would be working with journalists in order to improve its news content. The social media site has finally revealed exactly how it plans to work with journalists. Facebook has...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 28, 2016
Facebook, the largest social network on the planet, has been criticized for not doing a better job at thwarting fake news. That criticism is unlikely to subside Facebook's Safety Check feature altered users in Bangkok to an "explosion" in...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 16, 2016
People have been holding Facebook's feet to the fire over what is perceived as a fake news problem, which is a pretty big deal when you consider the number of eyeballs the world's largest social playground attracts on a daily basis...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Dec 15, 2016
Facebook has a fake news problem, and it knows it. The social network giant was already under fire for hoax stories popping into its trending feed following its decision to fire all of its human curators in favor of AI algorithms. Things...
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Brittany Goetting - Tue, Nov 22, 2016
The spread of misinformation and fake news via the internet is running rampant. As both a news writer and teaching assistant/college professor, I am in the unique position of not only battling misinformation online, but also in a...
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Brittany Goetting - Tue, Nov 22, 2016
We tend to credit late-millennials and Generation Z, or preteens and teens, with an almost innate ability to understand the latest in available technology, and the implications of relying on it. A Stanford University study of 7,804...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 15, 2016
Major entities are taking steps to crack down on the proliferation of fake news, and you can count Google among them. The sultan of search is putting together a new policy that would prevent websites from misrepresenting content on its...
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