Google’s new features are part of its larger efforts to fight misinformation and promote news literacy through education, fact-checking and supplemental info. By providing more context and diverse perspectives, the company hopes to help users escape media bubbles that reinforce biases and encourage them to double-check content before accepting it as true. While it remains to be seen how well the new tools will work in practice, they may be particularly useful for students wanting to verify the quality of their sources for research papers and essays.
