CrAKeN Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Google takes war on fake news to the next level Google's war on fake news takes on a new direction as the company straight out marks search results as "true" or "false." Google is currently rolling out an update to its platform which adds a "fact check" label in search results next to articles containing claims that have been vetted. This fact-check tagging system is rolling out globally on Google Search and News and it's an expansion of the company's program introduced in October in the US and the UK via Google's Jigsaw group. "We’re making the Fact Check label in Google News available everywhere, and expanding it into Search globally in all languages. For the first time, when you conduct a search on Google that returns an authoritative result containing fact checks for one or more public claims, you will see that information clearly on the search results page. The snippet will display information on the claim, who made the claim, and the fact check of that particular claim," the company wrote in an announcement. Multiple opinions, multiple answers Unfortunately, this information won't be available for every search result, and there may even be search result pages where different publishers checked the same claim and reached different conclusions. It's important to know, however, that these fact checks are not Google's and they're presented so people can make more informed judgments. "Even though different conclusions may be presented, we think it's still helpful for people to understand the degree of consensus around a particular claim and have clear information on which sources agree," Google adds. Google's fact check community has now grown to 115 organizations, without which this effort would not be possible. It's a good idea for Google not to get involved in "personally" fact-checking all these stories even though it may very well find it easy to get the necessary people hired, because it could easily be accused of bias. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 oh my...how the conspiracy believers are gonna hate this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 7 minutes ago, dMog said: oh my...how the conspiracy believers are gonna hate this The problem would be who was deciding it was fake News the liberals thought they could put out a list of fake news that turned out to block all conservative sites. and conservative sites say liberal news sites are fake EG the mainstream media . Most the time If i see news about politics i will read 2 or 3 sites take on it . Most news is biased anyways with a agenda and the mainstream media are masters of over blowing the news with fake mixed in with the truth lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 23 minutes ago, steven36 said: The problem would be who was deciding it was fake News the liberals thought they could put out a list of fake news that turned out to block all conservative sites. and conservative sites say liberal news sites are fake EG the mainstream media . Most the time If i see news about politics i will read 2 or 3 sites take on it . Most news is biased anyways with a agenda and the mainstream media are masters of over blowing the news with fake mixed in with the truth lol I am speaking to the Tupak is still alive and we never went to the moon crowd and the always at the forefront...flat earth people just to name few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Quote Pulitzers honor U.S. election coverage, Trump truths, free press in slap at ‘fake news’ NEW YORK – The Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in U.S. journalism, on Monday honored work that challenged President Donald Trump during the country’s divisive election campaign and delivered a passionate defense of a free press. The 101th edition of the awards, announced at Columbia University in New York, came with the U.S. news media under assault from the White House for peddling “fake news” critical of the administration, and after the press took a bashing for failure to predict Trump’s election. David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post won the national reporting award for what the board called “a model for transparent journalism” that cast doubt on Trump’s assertions of charitable generosity. Fahrenthold investigated not only Trump’s claims of charitable giving but also disclosed that the Republican presidential candidate had boasted in crude terms about groping women in a 2005 videotape. While on the campaign trail seeking the Republican nomination, Trump said he had raised $6 million for veterans, but stopped distributing the money having given out just a little more than $1 million. Journalism during the campaign was also honored with the Pulitzer for commentary going to Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal for what the board called “beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.” The coveted Public Service medal went to tabloid the New York Daily News and investigative news site ProPublica for uncovering official abuse of eviction rules that ousted hundreds of mostly poor minorities from their homes. There were a total of 21 categories in journalism, arts and letters. “The prizes represent the core values of two realms: independent inquiry into public affairs, and creativity and scholarship in telling the story of America,” said Pulitzers administrator Mike Pride. In his introduction he said the winning journalism included reporting that challenges “powerful politicians and institutions” and exposed “systematic abuse of people with little hope of defending themselves.” The New York Times won the international reporting award for “agenda-setting” coverage of Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russian power abroad, including assassinations and online harassment. Russian attempts to sway the U.S. election in favor of Trump are the object of an investigation by lawmakers in Congress. Freelance photographer Daniel Berehulak won for breaking news photography for images published in The New York Times illustrating the Philippines’ war on drugs. Pride challenged perceived wisdom that newspapers are in decline, hard hit by falling readership and advertising revenue, saying U.S. reporting was in the midst of a digital-age revolution. “Because journalists deliver uncomfortable truths they will always be easy targets for criticism,” Pride said. “But you only have to pause to consider societies where journalism is suppressed to realize even with its flaws, a vigorous free press remains a cornerstone of democracy. It is truly an ally of the American people,” he added. “I’m not going to offer any kind of opinion about the political scene other than that to say that journalists just need to keep plugging and keep doing what they’re doing,” Pride later told reporters. Other domestic U.S. awards went to the East Bay Times of Oakland, California, for breaking news, for covering a warehouse party fire that killed 36 people and exposing failures that might have prevented it. The New York Times’ C.J. Chivers won the feature writing award for showing a Marine’s postwar descent into violence. The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer for feature photography for portraying a 10-year-old boy who survived a shooting and his mother. The Charleston Gazette-Mail won the investigative reporting award for coverage of opioids in West Virginia. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald won the explanatory award for an investigative series on the Panama Papers, exposing the global extent of offshore tax havens. The Salt Lake Tribune won for local reporting for exposing cruel treatment meted out to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University in Utah. The Pulitzer for fiction went to Colson Whitehead for the slavery novel “The Underground Railroad.” Heather Ann Thompson won in the history category for “History Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.” The award for biography went to New York-born Libyan writer Hisham Matar for “The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between.” http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/11/world/pulitzers-honor-u-s-election-coverage-trump-truths-free-press-slap-fake-news/ The Washington Post is one my favorites and the one who won the award for being the most transparent . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 11, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 11, 2017 I would not trust big media news sites, let alone fake ones. I agree, most news sites are biased, hiding things, showing things what only suits them, titling things to provoke people - not to build trust in them, misinforming people, not cross checking, posting things as they come from the source, these politics posting news sites have no ethics yet they go on the stage - not talking about the thing above, to take the purchased awards as if they are the most honest and hard working journalist in the world or such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 7 hours ago, CODYQX4 said: PROTIP: Both sides on the mainstream are lying to you. The "fact-checkers" aren't exactly free of bias and may really reach to reach a verdict. Question everything. yes here is proof of this Liberal News NBC MSNBC host’s conspiracy theory: What if Putin planned the Syrian chemical attack to help Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/08/msnbc-hosts-conspiracy-theory-what-if-putin-planned-the-syrian-chemical-attack-to-help-trump/ Conservative news Fox Andrew Napolitano reportedly pulled from Fox News over debunked wiretapping claims https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/21/andrew-napolitano-reportedly-pulled-from-fox-news-over-debunked-wiretapping-claims/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 there is also the issue of reporting news or speaking a point of view, or an editorial viewpoint...the last two ARE NOT reporting the news never have been and never will be...Problem is...those that speak, write or talk about the latter two, or are just out and out slinging up half-truths and out and out lies to advance a political agenda, never tell viewers they are NOT reporting news but rather they are espousing an opinion...and they disguise it as reporting news very well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 It's like whee the USA had that meeting with China ..NBC told lies about how that went too..Sad thing is many people still dont know there's so much fake news because they only hear it in there car or something and don't really keep up with what's going on. Someone told me what NBC had said about it and I told them that's not what BBC and others reported at all about that meeting . Just because it's reported don't make it the truth. And every since Trump got in there there.. the Liberal News if there not reporting outright lies there reporting overblown stories .. It's a ratings game about telling a select groups of people what they want too hear, there not branded Liberal News and Conservative news for nothing .. There called that because there biased against the party that don't have the same agenda as them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 13, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 13, 2017 A lot of news media share the same source or if the news is wrong then hide behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 8 hours ago, steven36 said: It's like whee the USA had that meeting with China ..NBC told lies about how that went too..Sad thing is many people still dont know there's so much fake news because they only hear it in there car or something and don't really keep up with what's going on. Someone told me what NBC had said about it and I told them that's not what BBC and others reported at all about that meeting . Just because it's reported don't make it the truth. And every since Trump got in there there.. the Liberal News if there not reporting outright lies there reporting overblown stories .. It's a ratings game about telling a select groups of people what they want too hear, there not branded Liberal News and Conservative news for nothing .. There called that because there biased against the party that don't have the same agenda as them. and they are ASO reporting on how many out and out lies trump says evet=y day too...there is no doubt trump says a lot of total bs too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 30 minutes ago, dMog said: and they are ASO reporting on how many out and out lies trump says evet=y day too...there is no doubt trump says a lot of total bs too Trump is not a news reporter when you say someone is a lair you would have too prove its as a lie.Saying Trump lies about everything without any proof is just as bad as what they do posting news without a real source. Only way we can prove it is a lie is if we catch him in one. And all of them lied and are cached in them too Obama’s biggest whoppers https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/19/obamas-biggest-whoppers/ You remember Bush saying read my lips no new taxes and then raising taxes when things got bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 13, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 13, 2017 The problem is not one side against another, the problem is opinions and lies passed on as news, that without verification, politicians like to play with people, but journalists are no different on it. I would say that honest, non-biased political journalists are really in small numbers I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 33 minutes ago, DKT27 said: politicians like to play with people You look up each president biggest lies and everyone told lies , even George Washington told lies and they made up fake news back then that said he never told a lie. Mixing fact with fiction taking a real person and making up lies about them. George Washington Tells a Lie https://allthingsliberty.com/2017/01/george-washington-tells-lie/ Cherry Tree Myth · George Washington's Mount Vernon http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/cherry-tree-myth/ The 7 Biggest Liars in Presidential History http://www.alternet.org/culture/7-biggest-liars-presidential-history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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