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Google Brings Fake News Fact-Checking to Search Results

Search giant is letting partners and publishers decide what's true, what's false and what's in between.

Google Brings Fake News Fact-Checking to News Searches

First fact-checking came to Facebook Inc. Now it's coming to Google. 

The world's largest search engine is rolling out a new feature that places "Fact Check" tags on snippets of articles in its News results. The Alphabet Inc. unit had already run limited tests. On Friday, it extended the capability to every listing in its News pages and massive search catalog.