Politifact has also made some extremely doubtful (and perhaps biased) efforts to disprove and verify certain public claims.
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“I don’t think any of us believe this alone will be the end of the fake news issue”, James Goldston, president of ABC News and a member of Facebook’s fact-checking partnership, said to the Times.
It was a welcome move form Google as the company was being accused of helping to spread false and inaccurate information.
“This access to high quality information is what drives people to use the web and for contributors to continue to engage and invest in it”.
However, it is impossible to discern which ones are factual among hundreds of thousands of articles.
Outcry over the influence of misinformation, or “fake news”, began after the U.S Presidential election.
In all, there are 115 organizations involved in the fact-checking process, and Google hopes that by highlighting stories which are known to be true, people will be encouraged to conduct additional research into those that have not earned a fact-check label.
Google, the world’s largest Internet search engine, on Friday announced the rollout of out a new “Fact Check” feature that will put “fact check” tags on articles in its news search results.
The new tags, to be used in all languages for users worldwide, will use third-party fact-checkers to indicate whether news items are true, false or somewhere in-between. There may also be conflicting conclusions in some cases, Google advises.
Or in News results, it will stick a “Fact Check” option alongside the standard stories providing more details.
This notion is further evidenced in that not a single fact checker at Snopes comes from a conservative background, which a Daily Caller investigation revealed.
The company explains that it will only appear in search results where there is what Google considers to be an authoritative result. In some cases, search results may exist where there are different conclusions on whether an article is authoritative.
The information made available are not Google’s own, the blogpost says, adding that it will help people make more informed judgements.
For a site to earn the fact check label, it must include Schema.org’s ClaimReview markup in their HTML.
Google will take the help of algorithms to enroll publishers which are an authentic source of information.
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This allows users to question data they disagree with, much like people can with the content on sites such as Wikipedia.
