Fact check by Snopes.com
Credit: Online news
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“The Internet is the repository of the greatest library of useful & valuable information the world has ever seen – interspersed with the greatest collection of misinformation, biased reporting, nonsense, myth, rumour, half truths, error, misrepresentation & outright lies the world has ever seen.”1
Interspersion of, “... misrepresentation & outright lies”, has never been more of a problem than during the recent US presidential election. No sign of any improvement since.
Perhaps with this in mind, Google has enabled a Fact Check tag in Google News & Search results. “This label identifies articles that include information fact checked by news publishers & fact-checking organizations.”2
“Google will flag fake news stories in search results”
https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/07/google-fake-news-fact-check-search-results/
“Google is rolling out a fact check feature in its search & news results”
https://www.recode.net/2017/4/8/15229878/google-fact-check-fake-news-search-news-results
“Google fights fake news in search with ‘fact check’ tags”
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/google-search-fake-news-fact-check-tags/
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1 “What is the Internet?”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-is-internet.html
2 “Fact Check now available in Google Search & News around the world”, https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/ / Google help people find useful information great content publishers sites create access high quality information internet world wide web contributors engage thousands of new articles published online content overwhelming not all of it is factual true distinguish fact from fiction Jigsaw enabling publishers show Fact Check tag Google News news stories label identifies articles include information fact checked news publishers fact-checking organizations organisations assessing feedback users and publishers Fact Check label Google News Search globally in all languages conduct search on Google that returns authoritative result containing fact checks public claims search results page display information on the claim who made the claim fact check search result search result pages publishers checked same claim reached different conclusions fact checks Google people can make more informed judgements differing conclusions may be presented helpful people understand degree of consensus particular claim clear information on which sources agree fact checks more visible in Search results reviewing assessing fact checks informed opinions publishers Schema.org Claim Review markup fact check public statements Share the Facts widget developed Duke University Reporters Lab and Jigsaw publishers algorithmically determined authoritative source of information will qualify for inclusion content must adhere to the general policies apply to all structured data markup Google News Publisher criteria fact checks standards for accountability and transparency readability proper site representation articulated Google News General Guidelines publisher fact check claim meet these standards honor these policies site markup
organizations and the fact check community /
