GOOGLE rejected the 'fact check' program targeting alternative media

Google announced that it had terminated its dubious option of "checking the facts, as it proved that such a check was completely biased against alternative media

According to Google spokeswoman, the company does not plan to reinvent the "fact-checking" program that unjustly targets media alternatives and conservative web portals.

We launched an option of supervised claims at the end of last year as an experiment in order to help people quickly find out more about news releases, "Google spokeswoman Dailycaller said, and added that Dailycaller is a catalyst for such a recent move.

"We previously said that we were faced with challenges in our systems that marked and checked the facts in the publishers' news, and in further consideration it is clear that we were unable to deliver the quality we wanted for users."

There were two major problems with the "fact checking" project, which appeared on the sidebar of Google search results for very few sites for websites and publications, Dailycaller reports.

First, the legitimate media that have been chosen are almost all those to whom the audience is conservative. The Daily Caller portal, for example, received such a treatment, and web portals such as Vox, Slate, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones and several others were not clearly on the left side of the political (conservative) spectrum.

Second, and perhaps most importantly, many cases of "fact-checking" were wrong. One of the alleged checks was for an article that honestly reported that another member of the special council of the research team Robert Mueller was a donor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, which proved to be not true, and Daily Caller was therefore marked.

The entire program was suspended on Friday for the foreseeable future. Google engineers have reportedly returned and re-examined the entire structure to improve the "fact checking" system, and it will only see if the company will give up the project entirely.

"While we are still working to solve this problem and we estimate how best to serve our users," Google spokeswoman said, and she continued - "we put this experiment on hold."

• 23 Jan, 2018
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