Google adds fact-checking to news articles

"Facts" brought to you by MiniTru. Orwellian, indeed.

In the information age, the business of misinformation is a government sponsored activity. For example, many so called reputable news outlets including JT use information from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This organisation is nothing more than a Syrian blogger living in the UK city of Coventry. He has not been to Syrian in over ten years and simply gathers second hand information from bloggers and tweeters supposedly “on the ground” in Syria. Very little he reports is verifiable by confirmed journalistic sources. Then there is the political spin added by various news outlets to further their own agendas. The Guardian to the left, the Daily Mail to the right. Fox vs MSNBC, RT vs Western media and so on. So who will monitor the fact checkers to ensure the facts really are the facts?

Google gets to tell you what you really wanted to search for and even better they will tell you if the facts are truely google facts. They are going to be honest about it, just ask them.