Cyber & IT Supervisory Forum - Additional Resources

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Google has significantly ramped up its efforts to address misinformation 145 , with a range of Search upgrades and alerts to help you better understand the sources that they are connecting with for updates. And now, Google’s rolling out even more tools to as it is adding a new notice on evolving news stories which will alert searchers that the facts are still being clarified. The new alerts, rolling out for English-language searches in the US, will make the searcher aware of the evolving nature of the story, and will include tips to help the user evaluate information online, like a reminder of the importance of relying trusted sources. Small prompts like this are often all that is required to get you to take a moment of pause for clarity on such, before re-distributing false narratives, while it could also serve as a learning tool to improve digital literacy, by underlining the dangers of trusting everything that you read online.

Google’s also adding a new ‘Highly Cited’ label 146 to help you find the source info for major news stories. The new label will appear on Top Stories, while everything from articles, to interviews to press releases will be eligible for the new tag. And aside from promoting key source research, Google’s also hoping that it will help to elevate original reporting, “making it even easier for people to discover and engage with the publishers and journalists whose wo rk brings unique value to a story.” The highly cited label is launching soon on mobile in English for the US, with other regions to follow in the coming weeks.

In addition to these upgrades, Google also suggests that Searchers familiarize themselves with its Fact Check Explorer 147 tool, which enables you to search for any topic that they have questions about, and cross-references over 150,000 fact checks to provide more context. You can read more about Google’s evolving fact -checking and misinformation detection efforts here. 148

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