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Re:Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News by justin66 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:55PM (#16348830)
There's a section that was recently added to Google News called "Fact Check" that includes links to Politifact, Snopes, and fact checking at various newspapers. It is a good idea, to provide refutations of false stories that are going around, but it is also enormously depressing. Very rarely are any of the stories the sort of thing that should have got any traction at all, since they're just idiotic, and I have never seen anyone change their approach to evaluating the news after being called out on spreading such false stories on social media. The kind of people inclined to believe that stuff just don't care, for the most part.
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Re:Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News by dominotw on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:23PM (#16349990)
I just went to one of those sites Politifact

First link was this

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/feb/...

> thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working.

Which is true. How did they conclude that he is suggesting "don't love their health care system". You can love NHS and still march because its going broke, marching doesn't imply "don't love".

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Re:Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News by justin66 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:18PM (#16350203)
In order to reflect the subtleties Politifact use a sliding scale instead of purely true/false, and the article you linked is over 20 paragraphs in length.
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Re:Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News by giardini on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:56PM (#16354745)
I couldn't find Google's "Fact Check" but did find an article indicating that Google has apparently removed it, stating:

"We said previously that we encountered challenges in our systems that maps fact checks to publishers, and on further examination it’s clear that we are unable to deliver the quality we’d like for users....Fact checks from independent organizations will still appear alongside articles in search and Google News. "

https://www.poynter.org/news/google-suspends-fact-checking-f...

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Re:Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News by justin66 on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:55PM (#16360393)
I don't know what you, or they, are talking about but the feature I was talking about was this:

Fact checks from independent organizations will still appear alongside articles in search and Google News.

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