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Even terrible people and organizations can be smeared. Whether Google is good or not is irrelevant to whether your particular accusation is baseless.

As I pointed above, it doesn't seem like Google is even marking stuff has "checked", but marking articles as being themselves "fact checks".

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Whether Google is good or not is irrelevant to whether your particular accusation is baseless.

The perception of whether Google is good or not is all that matters. This is how media and mass psychology works. This isn't about fact-checking stories. It's about using Google's brand to deem specific stories to be real or fake.

But that's not what they're doing! Did you read my whole post? They are not marking articles as checked, they are just tagging them as being Fact Checking articles.

And what's the difference?

The difference is that it's not a evaluation about whether the content is correct, just about the type of content. It's akin to marking links as "PDF" or "Video".

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