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Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Google today introduced a new feature that will tag and help find "fact checking in large news stories." Tagged articles will show up in the new story box on news.google.com, as well as in the Google News and Weather app for iOS and Android in the US and UK. There's a two-pronged approach to detecting fact checking. First Google looks for actual markup in the site's source code. Then Google looks for pages "that follow the commonly accepted criteria for fact checks." You can learn more about the process here. To be clear, the tags show up in small grey text above the article links -- Google itself isn't passing judgement, nor does it tell you the source article's conclusion in search results. It's merely a sign that says "hey, read me to find out the truth." Still, it's a nice way to make sure readers are at least forming opinions based on fact rather than fiction.
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nothing fishy at all
Its not only conservatives who ignore or deny reality when it conflicts with their beliefs.
Liberals can have their own blind-spots to science, such as gender and racial differences.
Which they were able to do by the Liberty fought for by Republicans.
Fact: The Republican Party was founded primarily to oppose slavery, and Republicans eventually abolished slavery. The Democratic Party fought them and tried to maintain and expand slavery. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, passed in 1865 with 100% Republican support but only 23% Democrat support in congress.
Fact: Lincoln's Vice President, Andrew Johnson, was a strongly pro-Union (but also pro-slavery) Democrat who had been chosen by Lincoln as a compromise running mate to attract Democrats. After Lincoln was assassinated, Johnson thwarted Republican efforts in Congress to recognize the civil rights of the freed slaves, and Southern Democrats continued to thwart any such efforts for close to a century.
Fact: The 14th Amendment, giving full citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. The 15th Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.
Fact: The Ku Klux Klan was originally and primarily an arm of the Southern Democratic Party. Its mission was to terrorize freed slaves and "ni**er-loving" (their words) Republicans who sympathized with them.
Fact: In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, a Republican, integrated the US military and promoted civil rights for minorities. Eisenhower pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One of Eisenhower's primary political opponents on civil rights prior to 1957 was none other than Lyndon Johnson, then the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. LBJ had voted the straight segregationist line until he changed his position and supported the 1957 Act.
Fact: The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.
Fact: Contrary to popular misconception, the parties never "switched" on racism. The Democrats just switched from overt racism to a subversive strategy of getting blacks as dependent as possible on government to secure their votes. At the same time, they began a cynical smear campaign to label anyone who opposes their devious strategy as greedy racists.
Most major American city governments have been run by liberal Democrats for decades, and most of those cities have large black sections that are essentially dysfunctional anarchies. Cities like Detroit are overrun by gangs and drug dealers, with burned out homes on every block in some areas. The land values are so low due to crime, blight, and lack of economic opportunity that condemned homes are not even worth rebuilding. Who wants to build a home in an urban war zone? Yet they keep electing liberal Democrats -- and blaming "racist" Republicans for their problems!
Washington DC is another city that has been dominated by liberal Democrats for decades. It spends more per capita on students than almost any other city in the world, yet it has some of the worst academic achievement anywhere and is a drug-infested hellhole. Barack Obama would not dream of sending his own precious daughters to the DC public schools, of course -- but he assures us that those schools are good enough for everyone else. In fact, Obama was instrumental in killing a popular and effective school voucher program in DC, effectively killing hopes for many poor black families trapped in those dysfunctional public schools. His allegiance to the teachers unions apparently trumps his concern for poor black families.
A strong argument could also be made that Democratic support for perpetual affirmative action is racist. It is, after all, the antithesis of Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. Not only is it "reverse racism," but it is based on the premise that African Americans are incapable of competing in the free market on a
Actually I don't give a fuck about any of this shit. I'm voting on policy: BUILD WALL DEPORT ILLEGALS BAN MUSLIMS BEAT CHYNA BOMB ISIS. Trump could grab the pussy in the middle of 5th avenue and I'd still vote for him.
I just love how the left has turned into neo-puritans and then are the biggest hypocrites in the world about it. "How can you vote for that ebil Drumpf when he disrespects teh strong independent wymynz what don't need no man?! You must be moral like the pretty man on TV says I am voting Hillary who intimidated and silenced all her husband's rape victims!! She's the true champion of wymynz!!"
I'm against Hillary because she funds jihadi terror groups to overthrow stable governments getting hundreds of thousands of people murdered, leading to the creation of ISIS and all their atrocities, and creating the migrant crisis that threatens to destabilize europe.
I'm voting for Trump because fuck illegal immigrants, fuck muslims, fuck wars for israel, fuck banks, fuck multinationals, fuck free trade and fuck you. I do not give a fuck about gold digger whores who got their pussies grabbed, by Donald Trump or Bill Clinton. That hypocritical bullshit's all on you.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
What does that have to do with my comment?
Liberals live in a comfy bubble where everybody is friendly and pretends to care about them and think it's reality. As one small example they simply cannot fathom why the ebil conservative says "hey, don't let the fucking muslims into the bubble, they'll wreck your shit up." And then one day the fucking muslims have enough numbers inside the bubble and they come for the liberal who says "what are you doing?! I was your friend, I defended you from the evil hateful conservatives!" and the Islamist says "you are very stupid!" and saws your fucking head off.
None of your stupid liberal philosophies matter when your head is no longer attached to your body. That's fascism, and that's reality.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.