- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

RT Editor-In-Chief Comments on Foreign Media Helping Google Fight Fake News

CC0 / / Fake news
Fake news - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster and Sputnik news agency, questioned on Monday whether several foreign media were up to the task of helping Google fact-check news stories.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in April, tech giant Google said it would introduce globally a fact-checking feature, which would appear in the form of an information box next to Google Search or Google News items. This integrated tool will inform the user whether the story, assessed by fact-checking organizations and news publishers, can be considered true or false.

"These people (CNN, BBC, The Guardian) wouldn't recognize fake news if it hit them in the face. But they will still help Google fight it," Simonyan wrote on her Twitter.

Visitors sit on a bench at a lobby of an office of Google Korea in Seoul on August 11, 2010 - Sputnik International
Google's Fact-Checking Tool 'is Clearly a Way to Control Minds of Users'
The list of fact-checking sites contains 115 media organizations, including The Guardian newspaper, The New York Times newspaper, BBC and CNN broadcasters, Associated Press news agency, NBC News broadcaster.

According to Google's April statement, only claims by publishers "algorithmically determined to be an authoritative source of information" will be displayed.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала