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Google follows Facebook and introduces further fact-checking features to combat fake news

on Apr 7, 2017 | 0 comments

By Rebecca Stewart

Google is upping the ante against fake news again with the international roll out of new features that will place fact check tags on snippets of articles on Google News and Google Search results.

This label, which was unveiled in several markets last month, is now going global in all languages. It works by identifying articles that include information that has been verified or discredited by news publishers and fact-checking organisations.

Google will work with the likes of Snope and PolitiFact as well as more traditional publishers like the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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Source: The Drum