Thursday, 13 October 2016

Google will now help you fact-check Trump (and other lies)


Google appears to be just as fed up with the constant lies during the presidential election as we are, so now it's helping you set the facts straight. The company today introduced a new feature that will tag and help find “fact checking in large news stories.” Tagged articles will show up in the new story box on news.google.com, as well as in the Google News and Weather app for iOS and Android in the US and UK. There's a two-pronged approach to detecting fact checking. First Google looks for actual markup in the site's source code. Then Google looks…

This story continues at The Next Web


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