Google Hopes to Remove Fake News From Search Results With New Tool

In today’s world information is everywhere, so how do you know when news comes from a trusted source? Google wants to help you find the answer to that question, so it has introduced a new tool in an attempt to keep users away from #fakenews as much as possible.

Starting today Google’s Fact Check tag will appear when you search for certain pieces of information, in order to highlight that the claim has been checked by the search giant’s partners including PolitiFact or Snopes. Google doesn’t perform news verifications itself and instead relies on third-party organizations to do the hard work. The Mountain View-based company said it has partnered up with 115 fast-checking organizations in the hopes of better filtering fabricated claims.

As expected, Fact Check won’t be available for every search result, that’s would be a pretty gargantuan task. On top of that, Google warns that some page results might get multiple albeit different conclusions, depending on whether more than one organizations checked the claims.

Google believes it’s important that users have access to the degree of consensus created around a particular claim, so that they can make an informed decision to trust or not to trust a source.

Google first started testing Fast Checking back in October 2024, but now the search giant is making the feature available globally within Google Search and Google News.

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