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Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles

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

takyon writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:Labels(Score: 2) by schad on Monday October 17 2016, @03:41PM

  by schad (2398) on Monday October 17 2016, @03:41PM (#415225)

  However, GP strongly implied that journalists should not collate/organize the information they collect, nor should they compare and contrast that information with other, either public or previously collected information.

  I did no such thing. I said that in response to some Trump bloviation, reporters should seek out comment from the Clinton, Johnson, and Stein campaigns; and that the Trump campaign should be given a chance to respond to those comments. Granted, I did not expressly state that all of this should be put together into a single article, but, as it's all part of the same story, that would be the obvious approach.

  As an example, If a bank is robbed and the FBI releases a statement that they have captured a single male bank robber, even though numerous bank employees and customers related that the bank was robbed by three bikini-clad women, GP would have reporters simply report the varying accounts of what happened without any follow up. That's bad journalism. Rather, a good journalist should further question both the FBI and the bank employees/customers about the discrepancies, and attempt to discern those same five 'W's about that as well.

  I would do no such thing, because a bank robbery is not an election and it makes no sense to report on the two the same way. The male isn't running for Bank Robber of the USA, and his opponents aren't members of The Three Bikini-Clad Women Party.

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