In the past 10 years, the whole world has started to leave newspapers and turn to websites and Twitter to get information. Of course, almost everyone pretend to be a journalist He started spreading the information he found on social media. But of course, almost half of this shared information consists of lies.

When this is the case, news sites on the Internet are the only option for many readers to get accurate information. One of the main reasons for the preference of these sites is that the sites and the information on the sites are verified by Google and the relevant content is not provided to the users if it is not authentic. But does Google really control these sites?

Let’s talk about the worldwide scoop:

In recent years, almost the entire world only receives information from internet news sites. These sites include official state news sources, the sites of experts in politics, health, and technology, and news sites.

Hundreds of thousands of news stories around the world are published every day and Google using artificial intelligence does not “index” the news it detects as false information by checking it. So when you search for relevant keywords on Google You do not have access to this article. Google uses this method to prevent the spread of false information and largest 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 deception of society and The first internet news site to win the Pulitzer ProPublica, which has been investigating for months, has found that many websites that offer publications in languages ​​other than English are preparing fake news.

These sites that are not monitored by Google or are tolerated, even though they are monitored In addition, he makes money from fake news by buying advertisements.. Even in Serbia, Germany, Croatia and similar countries There are even so-called news sites that only make money from fake news..

What is the situation in our country?

While almost the entire 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 survey conducted by Teyit.org Google ads are present in 45 of the 50 news stories that have been proven to share false information.. This percentage is extremely high compared to European and world standards.

We can divide the fake news in our country into two categories. The first of these “intentionally fake newsto manipulate public opinion on issues such as politics, health and the climate crisis. aware means the preparation and dissemination of fake news. Our second category isunintentional fake news”. Here, on the other hand, we don’t usually research world news directly. News sites that translate to 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 make the news spread.

What is Google’s artificial intelligence doing right now, which should detect this news, remove the ads from the news, and even prevent the news from spreading? seated core fence.

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

From the news about the chip in the Covid-19 vaccines claim that the climate crisis is a “business game” A lot of news, including news, is shared on dozens of websites. Shared false information is re-shared by users and grows with the snowball effect, and eventually It becomes an avalanche that the vast majority of the public accepts.. This enabled society to accept false information as “true”, allowing large masses to accept many problems. makes it easy to manipulate.

So when will this era of false information end?

While Google officials are constantly making improvements in this regard and they fight against fake news However, studies and what we see prove that this is not true. Ad rate in fake news in English news sources up to 15% The fact that this percentage in our country rises to 90% is the greatest proof of this. Even in countries whose native language is not English, such as Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this percentage is higher. 80% was detected. In addition, since Google could not detect this news or intervene, even if it detected it, both in our country and in other countries. disinformation is seen as a source of income.

Some news sources report information that is clearly inaccurate. They only publish it because it will be read more and make money. and they make an amazing amount of money from just one news story. These sites, which violate the ethics of journalism, are ahead of the sites that do their job well in Google searches with the fake news they prepare. It also provides their income..

Apart from the financial part of the job, the people who work on such sites and platforms describe themselves as journalists It continues these surveillance operations on its own social media and on 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. is 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, because everyone can share all the 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 don’t know English. use your browser’s automatic translation feature We recommend that you watch the news briefly. Besides the news you doubt teyit.org, You can check if the news is accurate by searching for local sources like Truth Share, Information Disclosure, Verify and global sources like Snopes. Apart from all this, of course, the most important thing is the news you see.of your logical filterIf the news you see isn’t for you, then you should be suspicious of that news and do your research carefully.