Fake news is bad for Canadians and Google alike – and here’s how we’ll fight it GlobeDebate
Richard Gingras is the vice-president of News at Google. Colin McKay is the head of government policy for Google Canada.of the former editor-in-chief of Maclean’s, Robert Lewis, who has written a book on the partisan journalism of Canada’s early Parliament. Long before TV and radio – let alone social media – Canadians were reading torqued coverage in newspapers tightly controlled by political parties.
But while misinformation is not new to the Canadian political landscape, the digital age presents new challenges.The open internet has essentially put a printing press in everyone’s hands, enabling them to create, connect and distribute information as never before. It has democratized knowledge, increasing access to information for everyone. But, like other communication channels, the internet is vulnerable to the organized propagation of false or misleading information.
Misinformation directly affects Google and our mission – to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. When our services are used to spread deceptive information, that mission and the trust users have is undermined. Our approach to tackling misinformation in our products is based on three key strategies: elevating quality content in our algorithmic ranking systems; giving users more context around the information they’re seeing; and combatting bad actors.
Fair elections are fundamental to the health of democracy and we take our work – to protect elections, to comply with election advertising laws and to provide relevant civic information – seriously. For the duration of the 2019 federal election campaign, Google will not accept regulated political ads and we have a team in place that will monitor our services to enforce our policies and work to prevent abuse of our systems.
Our work to address misinformation is not limited to Google’s products and services. Indeed, many organizations play a vital role in addressing this challenge, such as newsrooms, fact-checkers and civil-society organizations. That is one of the reasons why we created the
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