Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches worldwide. Fact checks as part of regular Google search Here’s an example of how the expanded fact-checking looks, which begins today. Below …
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Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this will prevent such content from crowding out factual, accurate and trustworthy information in the top search results. “We’re explicitly avoiding the term ‘fake news,’ because we think it is too vague,” …
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We tend to think that large corporations have total, intentional control over their own businesses — local abuses are quite reasonably assumed to derive from pressures from above, to be extensions of the overall corporate culture rather than exceptions to it. But highly complex and, particularly, highly globalized companies often …
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