{"id":337848,"date":"2017-04-07T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1473879"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:05:18","slug":"googles-fact-check-feature-goes-global-and-comes-to-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-fact-check-feature-goes-global-and-comes-to-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s fact check feature goes global and comes to Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We live in the age of fake news \u2014 both the really fake news that\u2019s simply fake and the\u00a0kind of news that some people like to call \u201cfake\u201d only because they\u00a0don\u2019t like hard facts. As long as there\u2019s money to be made from fake news (or political gain to be had), the problem isn\u2019t likely to go away. And while there are plenty of\u00a0fact-checking organizations, unless you are looking for their data, you aren\u2019t likely to see it.<\/p>\n

Over the last few months, Google started\u00a0working with these fact-checking groups to include links to their posts<\/a> in Google News\u2019 story clusters.\u00a0That was a relatively limited program, though, and only available in the U.S. and U.K.\u00a0Starting today, though, the company is going to cast a far wider net: fact check is\u00a0now available globally and, in addition to Google News, it\u2019s coming to Google\u2019s search results pages.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In Google News, articles that include a fact check are\u00a0marked with the \u201cfact check\u201d label.<\/p>\n

In practice, this means that if you are looking for facts in Google Search (maybe to make sure it\u2019s not fake), you will now regularly see information from sites like PolitiFact or Snopes that will prominently appear on the page. Google will present a link to those sites\u2019 fact checks, together with a bit of additional information about the claim and, of course, whether this organization rated it as true or false (or somewhere in the middle).<\/p>\n

Occasionally, of course, different groups may have come to different conclusions. Some of these claims can be a bit fuzzy, after all. Google\u00a0says it will present those different opinions to its users. \u201cEven though differing conclusions may be presented, we think it\u2019s still helpful for people to understand the degree of consensus around a particular claim and have clear information on which sources agree,\u201d the company writes in today\u2019s announcement. \u201cAs we make fact<\/span> checks more visible in Search results, we believe people will have an easier time reviewing and assessing these fact<\/span> checks, and making their own informed opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

On its help pages, Google notes that it is obviously not doing these fact checks itself (\u201cIf you disagree with a fact check, contact the website owner that published it\u201d). Organizations that want to add their fact checks to Google Search must follow Google\u2019s relatively stringent guidelines (the last thing Google wants, after all, is to unwittingly include\u00a0fake news that masquerades as a fact check\u2026). At the end of the day, though, it\u2019s an algorithm that decides whether the source of a fact check is trusted \u2014 and chances are, somebody is going to find a way around this sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" We live in the age of fake news — both the really fake news that’s simply fake and the kind of news that some people like to call “fake” only because they don’t like hard facts. Over the last few months, Google started working with fact-checking groups to include links to their posts in Google News’ story clusters. Starting today, fact check is available… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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