{"id":11934,"date":"2016-10-14T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=11934"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:55:07","slug":"google-wants-to-help-promote-fact-checking-in-google-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2016\/10\/14\/google-wants-to-help-promote-fact-checking-in-google-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wants to help promote fact-checking in Google News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given what is happening in the U.S. election campaign, there has never been a more crucial time for fact-checking of news stories, and Facebook seems to be doing a fairly poor job of it. Now Google has waded into the fray with a new fact-checking tag for Google News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Google&#8217;s head of news, Richard Gingras, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/topics\/journalism-news\/labeling-fact-check-articles-google-news\/\">explained in a blog post<\/a>, Google is going to be highlighting pages in Google News that fit the criteria for fact-checking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some time now, Google has had a series of sub-categories that it groups articles into, including &#8220;highly cited&#8221; \u2014 which is the rough equivalent of Facebook&#8217;s Trending Topics, meaning it has been linked to a lot by prominent sites, as well as &#8220;local source.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now there will be a &#8220;fact check&#8221; tag as well. Sites that want their articles to be eligible just have to add a certain kind of formatting to their pages, as specified by Schema.org, an open community sponsored by Google, Microsoft and other tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: This was\u00a0originally published\u00a0at Fortune, where I was a senior writer from 2015 to 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Adair, the founder of Politifact, one of the earliest fact-checking sites on the web, applauded the effort in a post on Twitter, calling it a &#8220;huge step for fact-checking.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook has had an ongoing issue with fake news articles showing up in its Trending Topics section, as the Washington Post recently highlighted. A survey of the site&#8217;s topics showed that hoaxes and fakes routinely show up in the section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point, Facebook used human editors to filter out fakes and make sure the trending topics were actually news-worthy, but the site got rid of its editorial staff after a recent controversy over allegations of bias. The section is now curated by algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google said the new feature will be rolled out first in the United States and the United Kingdom and will be available both on the web and through the site&#8217;s news apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given what is happening in the U.S. election campaign, there has never been a more crucial time for fact-checking of news stories, and Facebook seems to be doing a fairly poor job of it. Now Google has waded into the fray with a new fact-checking tag for Google News. As Google&#8217;s head of news, Richard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2016\/10\/14\/google-wants-to-help-promote-fact-checking-in-google-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google wants to help promote fact-checking in Google News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269630,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions\/269630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}