Saturday, October 15, 2016

Google News now Fact-Checking




While it is good, right and necessary to teach students to recognize good sites and news sources and to be able to distinguish such sites from bogus sources of news, it is also good to know that Google is now fact-checking news sites.

In teaching, reading and learning about this election cycle, it is nice to know when "facts" cited are real.


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