Google’s New Offensive against Fake News: Verifying Images to Ensure Accuracy

In response to increasing pressure from authorities to enhance user protection against fake news, Google has recently introduced the Fact Check Explorer (FCE), a valuable tool for verifying the accuracy of online information. While the tool proves highly practical in an era of rampant misinformation, it does have certain limitations. Presently, it only enables users to verify the textual content, such as article titles. However, social media platforms, in particular, have witnessed a proliferation of fake images, especially with the emergence of generative AIs like Midjourney, which can swiftly generate realistic photos from scratch. Recognizing this gap, the latest beta version of the application aims to address this challenge. So it is now possible to download an image or, failing that, copy the link to it for FCE to launch a search on it. The tool will then display all the pages it appears on.