Summary of internet fact-checking tools

Google recently officially released Google Fact Check Tools, a fact-checking tool for Internet news information that it began testing last year, and it is completely free.

By default, Google Fact Check Tools lists recently checked Internet information. Each piece of information has results, labels, and authoritative sources. You can also use keywords to search for relevant information for verification.

Google Blog《4 ways to use Search to check facts, images and sources online》Introduces how to use Google related products for verification, including: “About this page” of Google search results,Fact Check Explorer , “About this picture” and other functions. In the results of Google search, click on the web page or image of the search result and click the “three dots” button next to it to get more search results for the web page or image.

Google's fact-checking tool greatly facilitates journalists and ordinary netizens to obtain relevant information from authoritative information sources, and it can be regarded as an artifact of fact-checking.

Some fact-checking tools

Hoaxy：https://hoaxy.osome.iu.edu/

Politifact：https://www.politifact.com/

FactCheck：https://www.factcheck.org/

Snopes：https://www.snopes.com/

AFP Fact Check：https://factcheck.afp.com/

REUTERS Fact Check：https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/

Well-documented：https://chinafactcheck.com

Taiwan Fact Checking Center：https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/

OpenFactVerification：https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification Open source fact-checking tool

But what needs to be emphasized is that in today's global context of “political correctness”, various so-called authoritative media and authoritative experts all take the lead. Whether the “truth” obtained by these tools is reliable or not needs to be determined individually.

Recommend the well-documented Chinese version of “fact-checking manual》, which introduces many practical tools and techniques.