I'd probably agree that seems to be how it's most widely shared. But note that Google did announce in Feb 2017 that they're changed their algorithm to combat fake news:

> Google announced changes to its search algorithm Tuesday that will combat the dissemination of "fake news" and conspiracy theories through new ways to report inaccurate information.

> The technology giant will change its search rankings to "help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content," a company executive said in a blog post. This feature aims to prevent issues like the Holocaust denial results that Google saw in December — which placed an article from a neo-Nazi white supremacist website at the top of search results.

http://fortune.com/2017/04/25/google-search-algorithm-fake-n...

Original source: https://www.blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-i...