Seeing isn't always believing: Google starts fact-checking images
Google said Monday it will start labeling some misleading photos in its images search feature with a fact-check label, expanding that function beyond search and videos as misinformation continues to spread rampant online. If a website or news article debunks an image in some way, the company will add a small "fact-check" label to the description of photos in search. A larger preview of the photo will show a short summary of the fact-check and direct users to its source.
[...] Fact-checking from social media and other tech companies has become common in the past three years — Facebook, Twitter and Google all do it to some extent — but it is by no means universal and often relies on news media and other partners to publish a fact-check and make sure the companies see it. It can also be applied unevenly, something that triggers complaints.
[...] The company used the example of an image showing a giant shark swimming along a Houston street. Now a search for the shark image — which was edited to make it seem as though a storm had caused the ocean wildlife to swim alongside cars — will show a small fact-check label next to a photo attached to a PolitiFact article.
Google said it is launching the feature fully this week.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:59PM (5 children)
What I would like to see
Example: Image of Winne the Pooh
Caution: Image may be deceptive, not actually Chairman Xi despite the similarity.
What I expect
Example: Image of Tienanmen Square
Caution: This image is western propaganda meant to undermined the glorious state
Given how much Google has helped them with the firewall while refusing US military contracts, I don't count on anything coming from this except evil.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:35PM (3 children)
Let's start up an American Google
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:44PM (2 children)
Unpossible, that would be racist!
Anything that can trigger Chinese communists is doubleplusungood, haven't you got the memo?!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @07:13PM
Yeah! Besides, the CCP is on the team [mercurynews.com].
Xi will be appointed vice-chair of Trump's reelection campaign next week -- Once those wheat and soybean orders start rolling in. But Xi better be careful, if he doesn't imprison/kill enough Uigurs, Donny boy will get angry. Then Donny boy SMASH!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @10:19PM
OT but on point: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-australian-uni-student-china-wanted-to-silence-whose-simple-protest-sparked-a-living-hell/news-story/4fcea3b66535bed6d6e08a320cd246ae [news.com.au]
China gets a student expelled from an Australian university over a tiny protest regarding HK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @12:57AM
[Citation needed]