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Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG ,NASDAQ: GOOGL ) has launched a 'fact check' feature to its Google News articles.
Alphabet said that the Fact Check tag will join a number of other tags that already exist, such as In-Depth, Highly Cited, as well as Opinion that already exist in some articles on Google News.
Head of Google News Richard Gingras noted that users have enjoyed having easy access to a number of content types. "Earlier this year, we added a 'Local Source' Tag to highlight local coverage of major stories. Today, we're adding another new tag, 'Fact check,' to help readers find fact checking in large news stories."
The move comes just ahead of the U.S. presidential election which will take place in under a month, on Tuesday, November 8. The algorithm designed by the tech giant examines articles in order to fact-check them with special markup language.
One such criteria that Google notes is: "Discrete claims and checks must be easily identified in the body of fact-check articles. Readers should be able to understand what was checked, and what conclusions were reached."
The new tag is being released first on the web, iOS and Android versions of Google News in the US and UK.
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