By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 9, 2017
Cover Story | CFP Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us
“The fact-checking feature, which was first introduced to Google News in the UK and US in October, will now be displayed as an information box in general search results as well as news search results globally.
“The small snippets display information about the claim made by a particular page or site and who made the claim, as well as the results of fact checking on the highlighted claim. The fact checks are not performed by Google, but by named trusted publishers and fact-checkers using an open system to mark claims as having been checked.”Let’s start with Hillary Clinton’s campaign lies and Russian collusion. Fact checks by “named trusted publishers and fact-checkers using an open system to mark claims as having been checked”? Most publishers of the current day are not trusted by the public, many of whom see them as spreading ‘Fake News’ while blaming conservative news sites as the spreaders. Nor can you really claim ownership of trust. You can only earn it.
“Cong Yu from Google and Justin Kosslyn from fact-check partner Jigsaw said: “With thousands of new articles published online every minute of every day, the amount of content confronting people online can be overwhelming. And unfortunately, not all of it is factual or true, making it hard for people to distinguish fact from fiction. (Guardian)
“As we make fact checks more visible in search results, we believe people will have an easier time reviewing and assessing these fact checks, and making their own informed opinions.” “Fact check boxes will not be displayed for every search result, and only publishers that are “algorithmically determined to be an authoritative source of information” will be included in the program Google said.”Publishers that are “algorithmically determined to be an authoritative source of information” are the same progressive left ones that already work to suppress the news. Ironically enough , one only needs to “Google” them to see for themselves. Meanwhile, Google’s new theme song should be Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York’. Google has no ownership rights on the truth. The truth can’s be owned. It can only be told.
View Comments