Google announced on Friday that it has introduced its feature on fact checked articles on Google News in South Korea.
 
Google has been labelling articles in Google News as "in-depth" and "opinion" for the past eight years.
 
However, last year it introduced fact checked tagged articles in Google News in the U.S. and Britain. Since then it has also launched the feature in France, Germany, Mexico and Argentina.
 
Google explained that it decided to bring in the new tag as it has become increasingly difficult to determine whether a story is true or not.
 
Media firms can add the fact checked label when efforts have been made to verify what the truth is amid a wide range of arguments on a certain controversial issue.
 
The tagged story must also meet certain standards, including identifying facts and claims, transparent sources and clear titles. By allowing the fact checked tag, Google will not verify or confirm the story again.