Google introduces fact checking.

[Geek-9pm]

One long headline reads::
Google introduces fact checking feature intended to help people see whether news is actually true.

I did a Google and found this headline  -- but I am not sure it is true.   

One of many.....
http://www.kollytalk.com/technology/services/google-introduces-fact-checking-feature-477602.html

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. Readers will thus be able to see if stories are fake or if claims in the headline are false or being exaggerated.

They say it will only be available in US and UK.   

[Salmon Trout]

It's on a number of news outlets including BBC. They don't say it will "only" be available in the US and UK, merely that the service is starting first in those countries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37657524

Google has launched a new feature, fact check, which will add a label next to news stories in search results.

Fact check will appear with other news organisations in Google News and will, Google says, "shine a light on its efforts to divide fact from fiction".

Richard Gingras, Google's head of news, added it will "help readers find fact checking in large news stories".

He said sites which already have a fact checking service can apply to be included to appear in search results.

"You'll see the tagged articles in the expanded story box on news.google.com and in the Google News & Weather iOS and Android apps, starting with the US and the UK," he added in a blogpost.

[Lorraine walsh]

You certainly can't check if news is true by reading British newspapers, tabloids sensationalizing and the rest pushing their owners political opinions are not reliable sources of news.

[Salmon Trout]

Lorraine, you should keep your political opinions to yourself. This is a computer forum. The Guardian and BBC are reliable sources of news.

[BC_Programmer]

Ironically it is the sites that push that otherwise reputable news sites are not reliable or can't be trusted that tend to misrepresent information to fit a particular narrative. They are able to do so because a certain subset of people implicitly trust them merely because the sites claim that everybody else is lying to them, so it feeds their paranoia.

[patio]

On top of that most so called "fact-checking sites" are a friggin joke...

So basically this is non-news...

[Salmon Trout]

Snopes is OK, isn't it?

[BC_Programmer]

I think so.  It's hardly free from claims that it is biased, but the "bias" it is claimed to have tends to be a bias of reality.

[patio]

Snopes has been caught in a few high profile BS stories the past 3 years...but overall i say you just have to be careful...

[Geek-9pm]

The  Guardian?
Look here:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/17/fake-news-stories-clicks-fact-checking
...tweets about a trip to McDonald’s became a story, even though the poster admitted they were ‘embellished’

[patio]

We really didn't need the photo...

[BC_Programmer]

Snopes has been caught in a few high profile BS stories the past 3 years...

I'm unable to find any examples.

[Geek-9pm]

Somebody vet these stories about the skill set of  Snopes.

http://drrichswier.com/2015/08/06/snopes-com-ceo-arrested-on-charges-of-fraud-and-corruption/

http://accuracyinpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/05/snopes-got-snoped.html

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/2/22/media-manipulation-the-truth-about-hillary-clintons-goldman-sachs-transcripts

What is the real truth?   (Photos not included.)

[BC_Programmer]

I was thinking that in a way this was getting away from the topic but perhaps it's actually right in line with it, as in some respect this is fact checking.

http://drrichswier.com/2015/08/06/snopes-com-ceo-arrested-on-charges-of-fraud-and-corruption/

This is a satirical article that makes fun of the sort of content in the other two links. It is filed under "political satire" which is the first clue. the second clue is the fact that the content is silly. A player piano started the scandal?

http://accuracyinpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/05/snopes-got-snoped.html

The origin of this writeup is from "Worldtruth.tv". Worldtruth.tv lists themselves as an "alternative news network". These fall neatly into the category of news sources that I described previously. It is run by Eddie Levin, a conspiracy nutcase who's affinity for reality is as low as his comprehension of it.

Perhaps not coincidentally, The original source article on the site has been deleted. So, you may be wonder how I know it was there? It's in web.archive.org. (But I'm sure the evil lizard government paid off web.archive.org to fabricate the page to make the site look bad! /s)

http://web.archive.org/web/20130107000124/http://worldtruth.tv/snopes-got-snoped

Of particular interest and to highlight the ridiculousness of the article content, we see this in the first paragraph:

For several years people have tried to find out who exactly was behind the website Snopes.com. Only recently did they get to the bottom of it.

Basically, it took them several years to find the "About Us" link at the bottom of the Snopes webpage?


http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/2/22/media-manipulation-the-truth-about-hillary-clintons-goldman-sachs-transcripts


I'm not sure what this link has to do with Snopes, and I think it's political content is outside the realm of what should be discussed here.

[Lorraine walsh]

Lorraine, you should keep your political opinions to yourself. This is a computer forum. The Guardian and BBC are reliable sources of news.

My bad. Will be careful next time.