Google Doesn’t Inspect Sites That Spread Fake News

In the last 10 years, the whole world has started to leave newspapers and turn to websites and Twitter to obtain information. Of course, almost everyone pretending to be a journalist He started to spread the information he found on social media. But of course, almost half of this shared information is made up of lies.

When this is the case, the only option for many readers to get accurate information is news sites on the internet. One of the most important reasons for the preference of these sites is that the sites and the information on the sites are checked by Google and the relevant content is not delivered to the users if it is not authentic. But does Google really audit these sites?

Let’s talk about the global first:

In the last few years, almost the whole world has been getting information only from internet news sites. These sites include official news sources of states, the sites of experts in the field of politics, health and technology, and news sites.

Hundreds of thousands of news are published around the world every day, and Google with the help of artificial intelligence does not “index” the news that it detects as containing false information by checking it. So when you search for relevant keywords on Google You cannot access this article. Google uses this method to prevent the spread of false information and biggest source of income It blocks ads.

However, according to recent research, Google does not respond to fake news written in languages ​​other than English. he doesn’t care that much. Established to prevent the deception of the society and The first internet news site to win the Pulitzer ProPublica, which has been researching for months, has determined that many websites that offer publications in languages ​​other than English are preparing fake news.

These sites that are not audited by Google or that are tolerated even though they are audited On top of that, he makes money on fake news by buying ads.. Even in Serbia, Germany, Croatia and similar countries There are even so-called news sites that only make money on fake news..

What is the situation in our country?

While almost the whole world is immersed in fake news, the situation in our country is not much different. ProPublicaverification platform Teyit.orgin his research in our country with the support of fake news It reveals that the websites that publish it are almost never reviewed by Google. In the research conducted by Teyit.org Google ads are present in 45 of the 50 news stories that have been proven to share false information.. This rate is extremely high compared to European and World standards.

We can put the fake news in our country into two categories. The first of these “deliberate fake news” to manipulate public opinion on issues such as politics, health and the climate crisis. consciously means the preparation and dissemination of fake news. Our second category isunintentional fake news”. Here, on the other hand, we usually do not research global news directly. News sites that translate into Turkish with copy-paste logic is located. Because these sites translated the information they received from “fake news sites” abroad into Turkish without verifying it. they cause the news to spread.

At this point, what is Google artificial intelligence doing, which should detect these news, remove the ads of the news and even prevent the spread of the news? sitting core fence.

Yes, indeed, artificial intelligence does not even move a finger about this issue. Even some of the detected websites, Even if they knowingly spread fake news, they still make money with Google ads. In fact, in the image below, a news proven to be untrue by Teyit.org is still on the air, and It’s full of Google ads you can see.

From the news about the chip in the Covid-19 vaccines claiming that the climate crisis is a “corporate game” Many news, including news, are shared on dozens of websites. Shared false information is re-shared by users and grows with the snowball effect, and eventually It’s becoming an avalanche that the vast majority of the public accepts.. This enabled the society to accept false information as “true”, enabling large masses to accept many issues. makes it easy to manipulate.

So when will this false information age end?

Although Google officials are constantly making improvements in this regard and they fight fake news However, researches and what we see prove that this is not true. Advertising rate in fake news in English news sources down to 15% The fact that this rate is up to 90% in our country is the biggest proof of this. Even in countries whose mother tongue is not English, such as Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this rate is higher. 80% was detected. Moreover, since Google could not detect these news or did not intervene even though it detected it, both in our country and in other countries. disinformation has begun to be seen as a source of income.

Some news sources report information that is obviously false. They publish it just because it will be read more and make money. and they make an astonishing amount of money with just one piece of news. These sites, which act against the ethics of journalism, get ahead of the sites that do their job properly in Google searches with the fake news they prepare. It also takes care of their income..

Aside from the financial part of the job, the people working on such sites and platforms describe themselves as journalists It continues these perception operations on its own social media as well as its websites and manipulates users who do not follow their news on social media.

If this is the only way to protect fake news research what you read. Today, many news sites have prepared the news and the sources from which they receive the content. states at the end of the article. Even if the source is not specified, when you search for the keywords of the news on Google, you can find similar news and even the source of the news. In addition, you should not believe every news you see on platforms such as Ekşi Sözlük, Twitter and Reddit, as everyone can share any information. You can check the accuracy of the information on such platforms with scientific articles.

At this point, you should mainly refer to English sources and even if you do not know English. using your browser’s automatic translation feature We recommend that you review the news briefly. In addition to the news you doubt Teyit.org, You can check whether the news is correct by searching local sources such as Truth Share, Information Disclosure, Verify, and global sources such as Snopes. Of course, apart from all of this, the most important thing is the news you see.from your logic filterIf the news you’re seeing doesn’t make any sense to you, then you should be suspicious of that news and do your research carefully.