Google's New Fact-Check Tool Attempts to Fight Back Against Fake News Worldwide

[KingOrfeo]

Didn't know this was possible, don't know why nobody thought of it sooner.

Google released its new tool "Fact Check" this week. It is designed to combat fake news on the internet. The move is a clear response to the post-election outcry over the spread of false news reports, their probable influence on the 2016 presidential election and their negative affect on democracy.

When a user enables the tool, news stories Google deems questionable come with fact-checking tags in Google’s main search results as well as Google News results, worldwide. These stories are given a "fact check by..." label with a link to a fact-checking site such as Politico or Snopes, as a means of red-flagging questionable content. Frederic Lardinois breaks down how the new feature looks and works in a recent Tech Crunch article.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And like the IRS, it will focus like a laser on perceived right-wing sources...




Susan Rice is in no danger for getting four Pinocchio's from them.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Actually, the IRS never focused on RW organizations, it was reviewing the tax status of other kinds of political organizations at the same time.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Though I was on ignore

BRAH!!!​

You need to be
fact-checked brah!

 

[Rightguide]

Actually, the IRS never focused on RW organizations, it was reviewing the tax status of other kinds of political organizations at the same time.

That is a demonstrable lie.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That is a demonstrable lie.

He has a link from Salon and a Paul Krugman op ed...

 

[KingOrfeo]

That is a demonstrable lie.

Not really.

In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder.

Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names. According to Republican lawmakers, liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny, but at a lower rate than conservative groups. The Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee issued a report, which concluded that although some liberal groups were selected for additional review, the scrutiny that these groups received did not amount to targeting when compared to the greater scrutiny received by conservative groups. The report was criticized by the committee's Democratic minority, which said that the report ignored evidence that the IRS used keywords to identify both liberal and conservative groups.

In January 2014, the FBI told Fox News that its investigation had found no evidence so far warranting the filing of federal criminal charges in connection with the controversy, as it had not found any evidence of "enemy hunting", and that the investigation continued. On October 23, 2015, the Justice Department declared that no criminal charges would be filed.

 

[Rightguide]

Not really.

Yes it is a demonstrable lie:

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf

And here:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-irs-march-2017-documents-00220-pg-21/

 

[BotanyBoy]

Didn't know this was possible, don't know why nobody thought of it sooner.

OhHHHhhhhhHHH cool, so Google is going to just filter out anything that isn't Justice Democrat approved.

There is a shocker!!

 

[contrifan32]

Yes it is a demonstrable lie:

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf

Sorry dude, I am going with KO and Wiki

 

[Rightguide]

Sorry dude, I am going with KO and Wiki

Here as well is a Karen Shiller admission the IRS used labels to classify groups:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-irs-march-2017-documents-00220-pg-21/

 

[KingOrfeo]

OhHHHhhhhhHHH cool, so Google is going to just filter out anything that isn't Justice Democrat approved.

There is a shocker!!

Nothing gets filtered out:

These stories are given a "fact check by..." label with a link to a fact-checking site such as Politico or Snopes, as a means of red-flagging questionable content.

Now, for some reason never made clear, RWs persistently reject the credibility and objectivity of sites like Politico and Snopes, but obviously it would be nonsense to attribute to them a Justice Democrat agenda.

 

[Parminderjeet]

Here as well is a Karen Shiller admission the IRS used labels to classify groups:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-irs-march-2017-documents-00220-pg-21/

OMG, labeling groups? That's unheard of!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Nothing gets filtered out:

Sure

Now, for some reason never made clear, RWs persistently reject the credibility and objectivity of sites like Politico and Snopes,

Because they are about as objective as Salon.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Sure

Sure, because that's not how the app works. Nothing gets filtered out, but some things some with fact-checking red flags.

Because they are about as objective as Salon.

Be that true or false (it's false; Salon might be objective in a journalistic sense but would never pretend to be unbiased, and Snopes and Politico are), obviously it would be nonsense to attribute to them a Justice Democrat agenda.

Consensus reality. Learn it. Live it. Be it.