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Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false
In its ongoing bid to combat fake news, Google follows Facebook in announcing new technology to help curb spread of misinformation
Nick Ut: a career in photography – in pictures
Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took one of the most famous photographs of all time – of a young girl running along a road in Vietnam after a napalm raid. But during his 51 years as a press photographer, Ut worked as a staff photographer, covering many and varied assignments
Best photos of the day: cat show and candlelight protest
A selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Las Fallas in Valencia, Somalia famine and retired circus bears
Google tells army of ‘quality raters’ to flag Holocaust denial
10,000 contractors told to flag ‘upsetting-offensive’ content after months of criticism over hate speech, misinformation and fake news in search results
‘Clean’ coal won’t be commercially viable before 2030, energy analysis says
Renewables now the cheapest source of reliable power generation in Australia, RepuTex says
Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source
Online encyclopaedia editors rule out publisher as a reference citing ‘reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism’
Reddit bans far-right groups altright and alternativeright
Final straw was groups’ participation in ‘doxing’, sharing private personal information without permission as a form of online harassment
Best photos of the day: a German tiger and a Tehran funeral
A selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the funeral of the former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and a four month-old tiger
Fort Lauderdale, Antartica and Istanbul – the 20 photographs of the week
The aftermath from the nightclub attack in Istanbul, a massive rift at an ice shelf in Antarctica, the fragile ceasefire in Syria – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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