Internet search giant Google has introduced a new fact-checking feature in its new section to allow readers to determine whether or not a story is true.
“Today, we’re adding another new tag, “Fact check,” to help readers find fact checking in large news stories.”
Through an algorithmic process from schema.org known as ClaimReview, live stories will be linked to fact checking articles and websites. This will allow readers to quickly validate or debunk stories they read online.Related fact-checking stories will appear onscreen underneath the main headline. The example Google uses shows a headline over passport checks for pregnant women, with a link to Full Fact’s analysis of the issue.
Readers will be able to see if stories are fake or if claims in the headline are false or being exaggerated.
Fact check will initially be available in the UK and US through the Google News site as well as the News & Weather apps for both Android and iOS. Publishers who wish to become part of the new service can apply to have their sites included.
“We’re excited to see the growth of the Fact Check community and to shine a light on its efforts to divine fact from fiction, wisdom from spin,” the company said.
The new generations have given up struggle for the sake of convenience and in doing so have sold their minds to the highest bidder. It is clear that this stagnant capitalist system promotes this type of brainwashing and should be brought to ruins.
Aaron Cook
This totally won't be exploited to reinforce the ruling ideologies narrative.
Jose Watson
You would have loved this if it filtered in favour of your version of thought control.
Leeeeel Corporations and governments are going to abuse the shit out of this.
Camden Davis
let's see if its actually useful
I can see it being useful when searching stuff about science and so on, hopefully its not a mess onpolitics
Zachary Collins
But its Google they can do no wrong :^)
Henry Flores
Whoops, meant to say they can "do no evil"
Thomas Price
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Juan Cruz
They actually dropped that catchphrase a few years ago
Justin Smith
I for one do not care about our new ideology overlords at the Ministry of Truth (Google). Lazy people gonna laze, stupid will continue to be interpolated subjects of hegemonic capitalism.
Eli Foster
But surely they must realise how this looks to the average person?
It reminds me of Cass Sunstein's suggestions to discredit "conspiracy theorists"…by secretly sending in government and corporate agents into organisations and Internet forums specifically to debunk conspiracy theories and cast doubts on those promoting them
Kayden Long
Excellent blog post.
Julian White
completely off the radar?
Caleb Rivera
i know ultimately this is fucked but maybe that will do some good and stop some of these retarded ass breitbart and prager u tier articles about the "cancers of socialism" and "toilet paper" from spreading around. i swear some of the shit right wing fringe news outlets push that i find on google are insane
Kevin Rogers
No, he had blue eyes.
Noah Cooper
The best form of propaganda is telling the truth, we don't need thought control.
If people like you keep up the bs with racism, sexism, ismism, we simply kill you and throw you ina ditch.
Yes we, if they are objectivey wrong and try to subert those who are objectively correct and moraly righteous, they belong in a ditch, not on a political environment.
Get fucked gommies.
The mods will kindly ban this post to prove my point, leftist are mental children who can't deal with the truth or hard facts.
You can only lie so much before peope start holding you accountable.
Isaac Harris
You really don`t know anything about propaganda. Pls read Gobbels.
Juan Reyes
If you want to end capitalism, why are you a Nazi?
Dylan Rogers
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Josiah Morris
i know it was created for the only purpose of abuse and censorship
Robert Diaz
you dont belong here.
Levi Bennett
Gonna copy-paste Debord from 1988 (20 years after he was a big deal)
"It is doubtless by mistake – unless it be a deliberate decoy – that a project was recently set in motion in France to place a kind of official label on some parts of the media guaranteeing them ‘free from disinformation.’ This wounded certain media professionals, who still believe, or more modestly would still like it to be believed, that until now they had not actually been subject to censorship. But the concept of disinformation must never be used defensively, still less as part of a static defense, building a Great Wall or Maginot Line around an area supposedly out of bounds to disinformation. There must be disinformation, and it must be something fluid and potentially ubiquitous. Where the language of the spectacle is not under attack it would be foolish to defend it, and the concept would wear out very fast indeed if one were to try to defend it against all the evidence on points which ought on the contrary to be kept from public view. Moreover the authorities have no real need to guarantee that any particular information does not contain disinformation. Nor have they the means to do so: they are not respected to that extent, and would only draw down suspicion on the information concerned. The concept of disinformation is only valid for counter-attack. It must be kept in reserve, then rapidly thrown into the fray to drive back any truth which has managed to get through."
From Comments on SOS Part XVI
Anthony Ross
So nobody. The usual suspects who peddle bullshit won't opt-in, making it pointless.
James Sanders
Fuck off antifa faggot
Adam Cruz
That's the whole point of it. Remember that Google already censors search suggestions and results. This is just another way of enforcing a certain narrative.
