Google introduced Fact Check tag across its search and news products globally across all languages Friday, the company announced in a blog. Google first introduced the Fact Check tag across US and UK in October last year. This is a big day for fact-checkers on the Internet. Hours before Google made its announcement, Facebook made public plans of paying fact-checkers. "For the first time, when you conduct a search on Google that returns an authoritative result containing fact checks for one or more public claims, you will see that information clearly on the search results page," the company wrote on its blog. How is Google Fact Check tag different from Facebook's disputed tag Unlike Facebook, which has a hands-off approach to tackling misinformation and fake news, Google's Fact Check tag is determined algorithmically. Facebook crowdsources fact checking by partnering with third party fact-checkers and lays the onus of spotting and reporting misinformation and fake news on users on the platform. Google, on the other hand, is encouraging publishers to use schema.org ClaimReview markup elements on their webpages and asks them to adhere to a set of criteria. The search company claims that sites do not follow the criteria for ClaimReview markup will be removed from Google News. Google claims it is currently working with 115 fact-checking organizations to source fact check data. Facebook, on the other hand, works with a handful fact-checking organizations in the US, France, and Germany. News organizations can now, theoretically, use Google's new feature to fact-check each other or give different verdicts on the veracity of the same article. How…
