Google Home Found To Pick Up Fake News When Answering Questions

Looks like even Google's voice-activated speaker Google Home is not safe from fake news. It was found out recently that Amazon Echo's rival is vulnerable to hoaxes, propaganda and disinformation published online. Apparently, when SearchEngineLand editor Danny Sullivan discovered that Google serves up fake news as answers to questions asked by users on Google's search bar, it led to the discovery that Google Home could also respond to user queries with data from fake news sites. Re/code says the reason why Google Home also uses bogus search results to answer to inquiries is due to Featured Snippets, a feature of Google Search that generates algorithmic matches to search queries from third-party sites. A Google spokesperson has since confirmed the problem with Featured Snippets in an email to Re/code.