With the heated debates between the U.S. presidential candidates, it becomes more and more important to differentiate between truth and falsehoods, so Google decided to help its readers distinguish truth from fiction.<\/p>\n
Under the tag of \u201cFact check\u201d, a website will appear that has content that is being fact checked and that has the corresponding markup<\/a> in the site\u2019s source code. These websites, which are in line with the \u201cFact check\u201d criteria, can also apply to have their website included in Google\u2019s news feed.<\/p>\n When introducing the search engine\u2019s potential possibilities, Richard Gingras, head of Google News, wrote, \u201cWe\u2019re excited to see the growth of the Fact Check community and to shine a light on its efforts to divide fact from fiction, wisdom from spin.\u201d<\/p>\n Bill Adair, the founder of PolitiFact, a website devoted to political fact checking, called this a \u201chuge step<\/a>.\u201d Media experts believe that this type of labeling could help increase the amount of visits to websites that are engaged in fact checking, the number of which has increased recently, particularly in the U.S.<\/p>\n Anna Barseghyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next level of fact checking: Google News has announced its new \u201cFact check\u201d tag. From now on \u201cOpinion\u201d, \u201cMain\u201d, \u201cIn-Depth\u201d, \u201cHighly Cited\u201d and other labels will appear with Google News along with \u201cFact check\u201d tags, where it will be possible to check the facts on the subject material. With the heated debates between Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","category-verified","author_posts-anna-barseghyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Ub1bz6iyn7sLna_IMO-5v3-neqc-fDI6iFIT8t9DKXj1onBUN3tEMQrlMq4dE3sWbOWEFcBnFU6ob0aJ6V0-1KtVaENs1KwAq3VKIL-qL1L9QcEvlvFiMsg4t_ybcEcDJ6GnedDp\")