Google featured snippets are worse than fake news
Google is a search engine for finding webpages, not facts. Thats where this &quot;fake&quot; news story should end. This is not a political problem, its a societal one, and you are barking up the wrong tree.<p>Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world. It is not authoritative, and anyone who treats it as such, should be educated to the facts of what it is, and is not. Just because its moderated to be supported by links to facts, doesn&#x27;t mean that every bit of content is free of bias and the whole truth. Its generally accepted that this is the case. Same thing goes for Snopes, and some other fact checking sites. They are generally looked to for a reasonable amount of truthfulness based on reputation. Same could be said for various media outlets, based on your preference and bias.<p>Social media sites and search engines are not responsible to tailor their content to fit your expectations of what truth or reality are. Stop being a child.<p>&quot;but, people expect to be able to Google something and results and snippets be the truth!&quot;<p>Well, thats a problem for sure.<p>How about we try and fix that expectation instead? Feel free to teach your children and anyone you know who uses the internet, that (surprisingly) anyone from anywhere can still get online and post anything at any time, and you should fact check multiple places and resources instead of trusting the first result from your favorite search engine.<p>&quot;but by offering snippets of results from programmatically generated search results (which is super handy 99% of the time) Google is publishing false truths!&quot;<p>Right, and you can probably still Google bomb the image search to show an image you want based on a certain search term, its the internet not your personal fact butler, no matter how its advertised. Its 2017 and common sense and intelligence are still recommended for most tasks.