Facebook And Google Partnered With Major News Organizations To Battle Fake News
Cris Xander JulianoFake news on Facebook may have been a factor to the outcome of the US presidential elections. France, with its own first round of elections taking place on April 23, will not let the same interrupt its own elections. With that said, Facebook has partnered with a number of major news organizations including LeMonde, Agence France Presse and Les Echos to battle fake news according to Engadget.
Users may report articles they think are fake, the article then make its way to media experts. When the article is verified as fake by at least two organizations, the user who submitted the report will be alerted by a warning and articles that are fact-based will be proposed instead.
CrossCheck, launched by Google News Lab, First Draft news coalition and 17 media partners, aims to help the public on who to trust in social media feeds, web searches and general online news. Due to its considerable amount of manpower needed for this initiative, the French media groups have enlisted journalism students to carry workloads for the project.
Director of LeMonde, Jerome Fenogliov, was convinced to join Facebook after the company stated that algorithms would be able to screen most of the fake news as he was initially reluctant due to the needed amount of labor to check numerous stories. Facebook would also let the media organization tweak the said algorithms to learn new cheating techniques fake articles use.
Meanwhile, LeMonde has its own project to battle fake news with its series called "Les Decodeurs," that allows users to submit articles for verification.
In addition, these efforts are aimed for the coming French election news. However, Google and Facebook will carry the initiative to the upcoming German elections as well.
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