Google is fighting fake news with its biggest tool: Search.
Google announced on Tuesday that it is tweaking its search engine to scuttle misleading or false content, a major move for the company and the world considering Google's dominance in search.
The changes will include alterations to the search engine's algorithms that choose which pages to surface in response to queries.
"We’ve adjusted our signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content, so that issues similar to the Holocaust denial results that we saw back in December are less likely to appear," wrote Ben Gomes, VP of engineering of Google Search in a blog post. Read more...
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