Google announced the Fact checking will be available in Google search. Search engine has begun giving special treatment to fact-checking websites in search results.

Fake news in google

Large amount of information with thousands of new articles published online every minute of every day. And unfortunately, People can’t decide all of it is factual and true, it is hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Last of October , Google along with Jigsaw  announced that, they would start enabling publishers to show a “Fact Check” tag in Google News for news stories. This label identifies website articles that include information fact checked by news publishers and fact-checking organizations.

            The world’s largest search engine had made the feature available to limited users in the United States and the United Kingdom, but it is now ready for use across the globe. Fact checks are not guaranteed to be shown: inclusion of fact check elements in Google Search results is determined programmatically.

Fact check in google search

Any publisher can apply to add the fact check tag to their content, but Google’s search algorithms will determine whether they appear in results or not. Fact check elements are scored based on a programmatic ranking of the site. Sites are evaluated in a process similar to page ranking: if the site ranking is high enough, the fact check element can be displayed in search results along with your page. The entire process is conducted programmatically; human intervention only occurs when user feedback is filed as violating the Google News Publisher criteria for fact checks, general guidelines for structured data, or when the publisher (whether or not a news site) does not meet standards for accountability and transparency, readability or site misrepresentation as articulated in our Google News General Guidelines.

While Fact Check was initially made available to just a few countries, Google has now announced that the label will be available in Google News everywhere, and that it has also been expanded into Search globally in all languages. That means that when you search for information using Google, you’ll see a bit of extra information about your results, like who made the claim, and the fact check of that particular claim, Google said. Note, however, that this information won’t always be available for every search.