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Google's fact checking feature almost exclusively targets - conservative sites.

Posted: Jan 10th, 2018 - 4:59 am

Google, the most powerful search engine in the world, is now displaying fact checks for conservative publications in its results. No prominent liberal site receives the same treatment.

And not only is Google’s fact-checking highly partisan — perhaps reflecting the sentiments of its leaders — it is also blatantly wrong, asserting sites made “claims” they demonstrably never made.

When searching for a media outlet that leans right, like The Daily Caller (TheDC), Google gives users details on the sidebar, including what topics the site typically writes about, as well as a section titled “Reviewed Claims.”

Vox, and other left-wing outlets and blogs like Gizmodo, are not given the same fact-check treatment. When searching their names, a “Topics they write about” section appears, but there are no “Reviewed Claims.” In fact, a review of mainstream outlets, as well as other outlets associated with liberal and conservative audiences, shows that only conservative sites feature the highly misleading, subjective analysis. Several conservative-leaning outlets like TheDC are “vetted,” while equally partisan sites like Vox, ThinkProgress, Slate, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Salon, Vice and Mother Jones are spared.

Occupy Democrats is apparently the only popular content provider from that end of the political spectrum with a fact-checking section.

Big name publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are even given a column showcasing all of the awards they have earned over the years.

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Google's fact checking feature almost exclusively targets - conservative sites. (Views: 624, 2018-01-10, 4:59 am)
- Remember how Google treats conservatives who work - for their company? They call (Views: 395, 2018-01-10, 5:01 am)
  - there's a lawsuit against Google, they discriminate agains - white male conservatives. (Views: 481, 2018-01-10, 5:28 am)
    - My sister works for the gubmint. She's a conservative. - She says she just keeps her mouth shut (Views: 477, 2018-01-10, 8:34 am)
      - What's that got to do with Google? Congress & Exe are Republicans - nm (Views: 418, 2018-01-10, 9:31 am)
  - They also kept blacklists of conservatives, both sexes. - I dumped google a long time ago. (Views: 438, 2018-01-10, 8:37 am)
- It's not good when people who hate you have so much control - over the Internet. I was listening to (Views: 441, 2018-01-10, 5:56 am)
- There's a difference--Vox has a "high fact" rating - Breitbart has a "mixed fact" rating (Views: 438, 2018-01-10, 7:44 am)
  - Who did the rating? Breitbart is not the only conservative - source of news. In fact they fired Bannon, (Views: 464, 2018-01-10, 12:57 pm)
  - CNN and MSNBC are also rated as mixed. They don't have the same - MB (Views: 364, 2018-01-11, 1:55 am)
    - FOX and networks not included - Sad (Views: 356, 2018-01-11, 8:07 am)