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Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com)
Google is calling on fact-checking organizations to help it bust fake news -- but it's starting in a small way. From a report: Google's Fact Check feature is not new, but today the search giant is rolling out the feature around the world. A global rollout is important if such a tool is to have any real impact. It's all well and good have reports fact-checked on one side of the world, but it's of little use if the same fake stories remain unquestioned and untested elsewhere. Google is doing its part by making the Fact Check label available in Google News everywhere, and spreading it into search results in all languages as well. The Fact Check label has been around since October, providing an at-a-glance way to determine whether or not a particular story has been verified as true. Google admits that it will not be possible to fact-check every single search result it displays, and the company points out that it is not responsible for the actual fact-checking process.
A conclusion is not a fact. So, what you want is someone to check that the articles reach the "correct" conclusions?
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
CNN and MSNBC are both masters at using a cherry picked set of facts to support a narrative. Other sources often do the same, just not to the same extent.
Using a very limited set of facts to support your position is called confirmation bias. People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news". "Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so. The people exposing CIA operations were labeled, yet we found through more facts that many nefarious operations did in fact exist.
Conspiracies are relatively common, yet the media has demonized the term so that people can't talk about them. This is despite knowing that the Mafia was and is a real group, US citizens have been and are being kept under surveillance illegally, etc...
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Will there be a truth detection algorithm? Who will be in charge of it? Will it be co-opted? By whom? Can't be just ban BadThink and make it punishable by banishment or death or something?
What if the fact checking is fake? Look at urbandictionary, I'd argue that less than half of the entries are accurate. It's a fake dictionary.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I've got news for the corrupt DNC. Twitter was full of Hitlery hating Americans! Not Russians. Go look at the election results.
Their home state of AK only voted for that hag like 34%. No one likes her. She derailed Bernie. The DNC swears she had it in the bag.
Let us not forget, Hillary's Twitter feed was full of Hillary shills. Pumping propaganda to her brain dead followers. She never had any real support. Her rallies were small. No people. Rigged camera photos. In high school gyms while Trump was packing stadiums!
The DNC is fake news. Corrupt to the core...STILL!
Is this fact checking going to be like Politifact, which has said that an article or tweet is "mostly false" while saying that the facts it contains are true?
A fact is either true or false. What Politifact is commenting on is whether the opinion, belief, or conclusion drawn from those facts is "mostly false".
For example, the unemployment rate has dropped. Donald Trump is the president. Therefore President Trump is responsible and should be praised for lowering the unemployment rate. The first two sentences facts, the last sentence is an opinion. The opinion would be considered, by most, to be "mostly false". Yes, his presidency may have had an effect on business expansion and hiring people but most of these business plans were in place well before President Trump took office.
They should start with fact-checking fake news like: "Women make 80% of what men do." or "Climate change threatens the future of humanity." or "Gun control reduces homicides." or "The welfare state helps people become productive members of society." or "Paying more for education than we do improves educational outcomes."
I suspect it isn't that kind of fake news that they are going to fact check.
This has a very fishy smell of censorship to it.
Hillary lost the Electoral College, which is how _EVERY_SINGLE_PRESIDENT in US History has been elected. We do not elect Presidents by popular vote, and never have. The reason for this is solid, and I can only recommend you do your homework instead of repeating bullshit talking points handed down by people who LOST the election. (Not unique to this batch, but this is certainly the worst I can recall).
Following the law is not a "technicality", it's called LAW. Your ignorance of the law demonstrates a big problem with the left.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I've sometimes heard leftism described as a "mental disorder". I never really gave that claim much credence until I read your comment.
After seeing the amount of delusion in your comment, I can now see how leftism could be considered a type of mental disorder. It's like you've gone out of your way to ignore all aspects of reality, and you've substituted in your own perverted, twisted sense of what's "real".
Pretty much every single sentence you wrote is wrong. If you haven't denied reality outright, then you've twisted reality so badly that it no longer resembles reality at all.
Normal people don't twist reality like you have done. What you've done comes off as really, really abnormal.