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Naked Security: Google joins the efforts to halt the spread of fake news
Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 5:02PM - By Alison Booth, nakedsecurity.sophos.com
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- April 13th, 2017
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a new tool to help users around the globe differentiate between real and fake news. Tested on news stories in a handful of countries over recent months, the “Fact Check” tag adds additional information to some of the technology giant’s search and news results. As a Google blog post explains:
This label identifies articles that include information fact checked by news publishers and fact-checking organizations… so people can make more informed judgments
The snippet that’s added reveals the claim and who made it, along with the name of the organization that checked it and what they concluded.
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