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07/18/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Lawmaker: Google should be liable for false information found in Wikipedia text boxes presented alongside search results

In an effort to combat “fake news,” search engine giant Google, as well as its subsidiary YouTube, is revamping its website platform to include small “truth” boxes that contain information pulled from Wikipedia – the presumption being that Wikipedia is an accurate fact-checking source. But it certainly isn’t, and at least one legislator is raising […]

04/13/2017 / By JD Heyes

Google’s news “true or false” fact checking determinations to be made by delusional Left-wing groups with a long history of dishonest bias

Media giant Google now thinks it is large enough to decide which news reports are valid and which are not, so it is implementing “fact-checking labels” to tell readers whether news is “true or false,” The Guardian reports. Here’s how it will work: When a user searches a political subject or phrase, the returns will […]

02/14/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Fake news and fact-checking: How the truth gets lost

There’s a lot of talk these days about “fake news,” especially as the political and media establishments continue their ballyhooing about supposed Russian hacking in the most recent presidential election cycle. Many people are justifiably concerned about how to decipher between what’s actually happening in the world and how to respond to it appropriately, and […]

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