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Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the day-late-and-a-dollar-short dept.

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.

2 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. Re:OK but misses a larger problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://i.sli.mg/iBUuJ9.png
    https://i.sli.mg/jbe6G3.png
    https://i.sli.mg/2jvEeE.jpg

    nothing fishy at all

  2. Re:Expect conservative meltdown. by quenda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.