Microsoft Bing

Report March 2025

Submitted
Commitment 31
Relevant Signatories commit to integrate, showcase, or otherwise consistently use fact-checkers' work in their platforms' services, processes, and contents; with full coverage of all Member States and languages.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 31.1 Measure 31.2 Measure 31.3 Measure 31.4
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Not applicable
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No 
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
Not applicable
Measure 31.2
Relevant Signatories that integrate fact-checks in their products or processes will ensure they employ swift and efficient mechanisms such as labelling, information panels, or policy enforcement to help increase the impact of fact-checks on audiences.
QRE 31.2.1
Relevant Signatories will report on their specific activities and initiatives related to Measures 31.1 and 31.2, including the full results and methodology applied in testing solutions to that end.
Articles from news and fact checking organizations may appear as part of specialized Bing Answers. In addition, news and fact-check articles can appear in Bing News carousels, which are often presented at the top of search results pages, depending on the nature of user query. Microsoft maintains agreements with news publishers to surface high authority content, including articles from well-regarded fact checking organizations and journalist-driven fact-checks, high in relevant search results.  

During the Reporting Period, Bing maintained a fact-checking agreement to provide coverage in the following EU languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish; the fact-checking agreement also includes coverage of Catalan and Serbian languages, among others.

In addition, Bing uses threat intelligence to inform the Bing algorithm and defensive search measures used for Bing search and Bing’s generative search features. Bing works with trusted third-party partners for leads of potential threats, including in EEA member state languages) to inform defensive search strategies for Bing. Bing also utilises the ClaimReview open protocol to ingest fact checks into search results.

Bing has increased coverage of EEA languages, informing interventions across monitored themes and sources.

In addition, Bing Search uses ClaimReview tags embedded in websites with fact-checked content to help inform its algorithms (i.e., by leading users to more authoritative sources of information) and to provide useful context and indications of trustworthiness to its users in search results.

See QREs 21.1.1 and 30.2.1-2.

SLI 31.1.1 (for Measures 31.1 and 31.2)
Member State level reporting on use of fact-checks by service and the swift and efficient mechanisms in place to increase their impact, which may include (as depends on the service): number of fact-check articles published; reach of fact-check articles; number of content pieces reviewed by fact-checkers.
Fact Check URLs (“FC URL”) – This represents the number of distinct URLs containing a ClaimReview tag (i.e. fact-check content) that appeared on the first page of Bing search results for any number of users located in the EU Member States. 

Fact Check Impressions (“FCI”) – The number of times the above-mentioned URLs appeared on the first page of Bing search results to a user located in the EU Member States.

Country Nr of fact-checked articles published Reach of fact-checked (FCI) Nr of content pieces reviewed by fact-checkers Other (FC URLS)
Austria 34,509 4,698
Belgium 60,454 5,999
Bulgaria 2 2
Croatia 1 1
Cyprus 1 1
Czech Republic 1 1
Denmark 13,443 2,519
Estonia 1 1
Finland 9,591 1,629
France 212,276 9,081
Germany 3,968,924 17,342
Greece 1 1
Hungary 3 3
Ireland 38,151 5,806
Italy 68,653 5,939
Latvia 1 1
Lithuania 3 3
Luxembourg 1 1
Malta 0 0
Netherlands 97,193 9,292
Poland 591,84 4,690
Portugal 38,493 4,212
Romania 22 18
Slovakia 1 1
Slovenia 0 0
Spain 161,600 7,793
Sweden 39,686 5,756
Iceland 6 6
Liechtenstein 1 1
Norway 23,942 4,456
Total EU N/A 4,802,195 N/A 84,790
Total EEA N/A 4,826,144 N/A 89,253