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How do you feel about website fact checking?

While spelunking in the fowl bowels of this site as well as a few others I came across a site reference to https://schema.org/.

Going through that site I found some references to fact checking utility options.

I must note that while schema.org is claimed to be a consortium of Bing, Google and others. It's origins solely lay on Google.

There are apparently other such fact checking utilities. Open source is also one of them.

What I find quite foully odorous and obnoxious is what values do such sites have?

Google's values I have known for decades. I thoroughly and totally distrust them. Yet what of Open source or others?

How do you feel about this?

Must note, since this site is using scheme.org it's not out of the realm for them to start fact checking. They are using it for other purposes like search. Which brings up a whole other can of garbage. 😞
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SW-User
I don't know about the sites you are talking about, but when I see something dubious on line I want to check whether it's factual, and Snopes is often useful for that.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@SW-User I'm talking about this site being the biggest issue.

For all I know snopes could be using this very utility. I haven't checked their bowl movement yet! 😖
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@DeWayfarer Snopes has been around for a long time, and was formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Page. It's about as old as the internet itself, and as far as I can tell, they are reliable.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@LordShadowfire yet are they using these types of utilities?

I don't know.

And if not why haven't they made their own utilities?

You see they could jump on this bandwagon themselves quite easily. Open source would likely welcome them.