The advancement is important in view of the fact that the importance of data journalism is on a rise across news organisations and data tables are often the most useful format for them.
"Based on feedback from 30 of the top data journalists in the world, we identified an opportunity to improve how tabular data appears in Google Search and in doing so make it easier for all people to find the data they're looking for," Simon Rogers, Data Editor at Google News Lab said in a blog post on Tuesday.
How does it work?
News organisations that publish data in the form of tables can add additional structured data to make the dataset parts of the page easier to identify for use in relevant Search features.
They add the structured data to their existing html of a page, which means that news organisations can still control how their tables are presented to readers, Rogers said.
Called "Not Without My Consent," the resource hub will help victims find organisations and resources to support them, including steps they can take to remove the content from Facebook and prevent it from being shared further, Antigone Davis, Facebook's Global Head of Safety, said in a statement.
"We're also going to make it easier and more intuitive for victims to report when their intimate images were shared on Facebook," Davis said.
Facebook said it will also build a victim support toolkit to give people around the world more information with locally and culturally relevant support.
"By using machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can now proactively detect near nude images or videos that are shared without permission on Facebook and Instagram," Davis said.
"This means we can find this content before anyone reports it, which is important for two reasons: often victims are afraid of retribution so they are reluctant to report the content themselves or are unaware the content has been shared," he added.
A specially-trained member of Facebook's Community Operations team will review the content found by its technology.
"If the image or video violates our Community Standards, we will remove it, and in most cases we will also disable an account for sharing intimate content without permission," Davis added.
Available for both Android as well as iOS users, the feature was announced on the micro-blogging site itself late on Monday.
"It's easy to express yourself by re-tweeting with a comment. What if you could take it a step further and include media? Starting today, you can retweet with photos, a GIF, or a video to really make your reaction pop," Twitter Support posted.
The feature has also been made available on Twitter's mobile website.
"We found it was challenging for people to quickly understand all the content in a retweet with media. This was due to the layout; two large tweets stacked on top of each other," The Verge quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying.
As a solution, the micro-blogging site now puts the original tweet in a smaller, indented box with the user's avatar still visible, and it makes their media full width, the report added.
However, details about the desktop availability and functionality of this feature remain unclear as of now.
"If you're seeing this on a desktop browser, it's not going to look quite right. Hopefully Twitter will fix that before long," the report noted.
"When you tap one of these results to view the image in a larger format, you'll see a summary of the fact check that appears on the underlying web page," Harris Cohen, Google's Group Product Manager for Search wrote in a blog post on Monday.
This measure to fight misinformation spread through use of images builds on Google's fact check features in Search and News.
Fact check labels appear on results that come from independent, authoritative sources on the web that meet our criteria.
These sources rely on ClaimReview, an open method used by publishers to indicate fact check content to search engines.
We already highlight fact checks on Search and in Google News to make this content easy to discover.
YouTube also leverages ClaimReview to surface fact check information panels in Brazil, India and the US.
"Just as is the case in Search, adding this label in Google Images results does not affect ranking; our systems are designed to surface the most relevant, reliable information available, including from sources that provide fact checks," Cohen said.
To recognise the important work being done by fact-checkers during the ongoing pandemic, the Google News Initiative provided $6.5 million in funding support to organisations around the globe earlier this year.
(IANS)
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