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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 15 2016, @07:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the snopes-way-this-will-work dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 16 2016, @10:39AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 16 2016, @10:39AM (#414824) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_rifle [wikipedia.org]

    I have little idea what you "Mondragon facility" is, but I suppose that you've found some exception to the rule. You believe that such exception proves that communism can work. Well, let me back up just a little - communism does work, at small scales. Communism cannot be scaled up to national or to world scales, such as Marx envisioned.

    Before communism can work, you have to remove all of humanity's baser instincts. Guess what, though? Without all of his bad habits, man won't be man.

    Another way of stating that, is communism won't work until mankind has evolved into it. That's where all our liberals get that bullshit about being more evolved than ignorant conservatives.

    And, I repeat - it is utter bullshit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @07:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @07:02PM (#414922)

    I have little idea what [your] "Mondragon facility" is

    You are not surprising me one bit.
    You are constantly in Send mode, spewing your ignorance; you never switch over to Receive and take on fresh knowledge.
    As such, you have missed the DOZENS of times that I have mentioned Mondragon and their success with a Socialist workplace since 1956.

    Before communism can work, you have to remove all of humanity's baser instincts

    You're still using the propaganda word.
    You refuse to update your knowledge base.
    ...and Mondragon, Yugoslavia, Emilia-Romagna, the olive oil producers of Spain, et al. demonstrate that Socialism, a system built on community does work.

    ...and, by your "logic", every neighborhood on the globe would constantly be a war and there would not be any peace anywhere.

    Communism cannot be scaled up to national or to world scales

    Again, you're still using the propaganda word.
    At a REGIONAL level, a third of of the output of Emilia-Romagna is from their thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of Socialist operations.
    I've already mentioned the NATION of Yugoslavia and you, in your usual Send-only mode, have ignored it.

    ..and the places where Socialism hasn't continued (The Paris Commune of 1871, Catalonia in 1936-1937, Indonesia in 1965, etc.) has been because of murderous Capitalists with guns.

    ...and, again, any places that have tried a top-down method without including Democracy in the Workplace are practicing -something- but that's NOT Socialism.
    (Typically, those are practicing Totalitarianism and State Capitalism.)
    Your including those places as examples queers the data and demonstrates your ignorance once again.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 17 2016, @01:19AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 17 2016, @01:19AM (#415040) Journal

      What I'm hearing is the No True Scotsman argument. Only this one example is really socialism, because it works. In those instances where people claim to be socialists while on their journey to empire building, those weren't the Scotsmen we were looking for.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @01:55AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @01:55AM (#415050)

        You're tiresome, but are rarely interesting.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]