Google starts fact-checking images amid incorrect information

Google said Google Images would launch a fact-checking from Monday to help people make “more informed statements about what they see on the Internet.”

‘Photos and videos are an incredible way to help people understand what’s going on in the world’, reads the announcement, describing the pitfalls in the visual media ‘especially when there are questions about the origin, authenticity or context of a image.’

Google already implements fact checking for regular search results and news, which, according to the search engine, hits people billions of times a year and will not affect the ranking of the results.

If you are looking for an image, you can now see a “Fact Check” label below the results of the thumbnail image, which can be enlarged to see if the image shows what it claims.

According to Google, “these labels may appear both for factual articles on specific images and for fact-viewing articles that contain an image in the story.”

Twitter recently labeled one of Trump’s tweets of an edited version of a viral clip of two toddlers running to greet each other as ‘manipulated media’, and later removed the clip along with Facebook.

Twitter said new fact-checking measures – which led to labels on a handful of Trump tweets – “should provide context, not fact-checking”, while Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook said his platform “does not” share the truth of everything what people say online. ”