Google now offers an automatic fact check program on their search results as per Ars Technica. There is of course a caveat as is the case with any new technology.
The trick is, you won't find these results unless you specifically type in an oft-repeated claim, as opposed to a question. If you search for the phrase "how many undocumented immigrants are in the United States," normal search results appear with a mix of answers and data points. Searching specifically for "34 million undocumented immigrants" will bring up a fact-check box that credits President Donald Trump with that claim, along with a direct link to Politifact's "pants on fire" fact-check rating.
Google's fact-checking bots will only comb certain data and research sites. They must either present their data with Schema.org ClaimReview mark-up on public pages or use the Share The Facts widget. At that point, Google's internal processes will "algorithmically determine" whether a site is an "authoritative source of information." Google lists some of the data points that its bots seek, including a requirement that "analysis must be transparent about sources and methods, with citations and references to primary sources." How robots confirm that kind of content "algorithmically" without human intervention is unclear. Once a site is determined Google fact-check worthy, other terms and criteria apply.
I’ve seen a lot of attacks on millennials on this site, I realize the mean age of users here is quite high but I implore you all to please consider the fact that us young folk drive these things. We search the most, we twitter the most, we facebook the most. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, if we’re young we love social media and the internet. If you want to harness the power of these new tools like the Google fact checker you NEED us young people.
We have fairly specific politics, probably more focused than previous generations. You don’t need to hit our purity standard but the closer you get the more of our votes you will get. Our potential number of voters will exceed Boomers in 2018. More importantly the more of us you get the more of the internet you get. It wasn’t coincidence or Russians that caused Bernie to own the internet message, it was us millennials. For now, where we go, the internet goes.