Google says it is struggling to 'understand truth' because people are confusing its search algorithm

Google has admitted it is having trouble working out what's true and what's false. People are managing to confuse the company's search algorithm, says Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet. As a result, it's struggling to rank search results correctly, in order of accuracy. "Let's say that this group believes Fact A and this group believes Fact B, and you passionately disagree with each other and you are all publishing and writing about it and so forth and so on," Mr Schmidt said at the Halifax International Security Forum last weekend, reports CNBC. "It is very difficult for us to understand truth.