Alphabet's Google is launching the to weed out fake news online and during breaking news situations, it said in a blog post Tuesday.
Google said it plans to spend $300 million over the next three years to improve the accuracy and quality of news appearing on its platforms.
The changes come as Google, Facebook and Twitter face a backlash over their role during the U.S. presidential election by allowing the spread of false and often malicious information that might have swayed voters toward Republican candidate Donald Trump.
In a separate blog post, Google said it was launching a tool to help subscribe to news publications.
will let users buy a subscription on participating news sites using their Google account and manage all their subscriptions in one place.
Google said it would launch the news subscription with the , , and among others. The search engine said it plans to add more news publishers soon.