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Google News will begin labeling "fact-checking" articles that appear major news story clusters. Richard Gingras, the "Head of News" at Google, writes that Google News will check for schema.org ClaimReview markup:
Over the last several years, fact checking has come into its own. Led by organizations like the International Fact-Checking Network, rigorous fact checks are now conducted by more than 100 active sites, according to the Duke University Reporter's Lab. They collectively produce many thousands of fact-checks a year, examining claims around urban legends, politics, health, and the media itself.
In the seven years since we started labeling types of articles in Google News (e.g., In-Depth, Opinion, Wikipedia), we've heard that many readers enjoy having easy access to a diverse range of content types. Earlier this year, we added a "Local Source" Tag to highlight local coverage of major stories. Today, we're adding another new tag, "Fact check," to help readers find fact checking in large news stories. 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 U.S. and the U.K.
TechCrunch notes that "The Schema community builds markups for structured data on the internet. The group is sponsored by Google but also has support from Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex."
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @07:59PM
Google is walking a fine line here on their own reputation.
One day an 85-year-old man is taking a stroll around his hometown, which he has lived in for his whole life. As he sees the landmarks, homes, and streets from his youth, he starts reminiscing....
"I remember helping build that bridge when I was 25. I worked hard on that. But people wont call you the bridge builder if you do that here. No, no, they dont!"
"I remember building that house over there when I was 30. But people wont call you the house builder if you do that. No, no they dont!"
"I remember building that tavern that I still lounge at when I was 35. If you do that people wont call you the tavern builder either. They sure wont!"
"But if you fuck one goat......."
Moral? You can have years of goodwill and blow your load and you are forever branded as tainted.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 15 2016, @09:16PM
Wheres the fracking hilarious mod?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:37AM
All posters in this discussion who are critical of Google are tainted because they have revealed themselves to be anti-Semites.
You can't insult Google's Jewish founders like that. Racists!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:25AM
Disregard that, I build bridges.