Nope. Up to a day or so ago when I went to the news.google.com site, at the bottom of the page, after stories under the headings Your briefing Friday, June 20, Top stories, More news ,Your topics, Canada, Business, and Entertainment, there used to be four links to stories that were fact checked by fact checking sites like Scopes.Does this page help?
Fact Check Tools
toolbox.google.com
I found it in a Google search for "google news fact check" and it's the first result.
Not to get all conspiratorial but we seem to be living in an era where facts don't matter very much any more.UPDATE. Searching for >fact-checking removed from Google News< tells me it has gone but the page it redirects me to won't open.
I'm not being terribly conspiratorial but just wondering why Google stopped doing it.
With Google it will be for one reason and one reason only - money - it either saves them money not providing it or it somehow generates more revenue for them not supplying it.I'm not being terribly conspiratorial but just wondering why Google stopped doing it.
Whatever minimal effect it may have had, it's discontinuance must be seen as negative.
I have used Snopes to provide logical debunking of CTs posted by friends and colleges rather than arguing the point myself many times over the years.
When the Internet was a friendly place only populated by us nerds I was a reader of and a poster to the Usenet Newsgroup alt.folklore.urban from whence Snopes was created. Without promotion I fear it will be gone and we'll all live in our own little echo chambers.
When the Internet was a friendly place occupied by you nerds, we got Godwin's Law and corollary.I'm not being terribly conspiratorial but just wondering why Google stopped doing it.
Whatever minimal effect it may have had, it's discontinuance must be seen as negative.
I have used Snopes to provide logical debunking of CTs posted by friends and colleges rather than arguing the point myself many times over the years.
When the Internet was a friendly place only populated by us nerds I was a reader of and a poster to the Usenet Newsgroup alt.folklore.urban from whence Snopes was created. Without promotion I fear it will be gone and we'll all live in our own little echo chambers.
Obviously this doesn't matter to Gord's thesis.