French election: Tech firms quarrel feign news

February 07, 2017
Business

What to do about viral 'fake news'

Google and Facebook are partnering with reporters to assistance forestall feign news stories from swelling during France’s presidential election.

Google News Lab and a non-profit First Draft News have launched a corroboration plan called “CrossCheck” that will assistance French newsrooms brand and fast debunk hoaxes, rumors and other feign claims.

At slightest 17 vital news organizations are holding partial in a project, including Le Monde, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Liberation, BuzzFeed and France Medias Monde, that manages Radio France Internationale and TV hire France 24.

Google (GOOGL, Tech30) and Facebook (FB, Tech30) will yield a reporters with collection to assistance brand dubious content. Google Trends and CrowdTangle, a Facebook apparatus that monitors amicable networks, will be used to indicate for cryptic stories.

Google will also sight students from France’s heading broadcasting schools in modernized hunt techniques that can be used to brand feign news.

The students will supplement context to any feign explain and emanate a live feed of shareable news cards on a CrossCheck website. The feed will be overseen by a Agence-France Presse.

The open will also be means to contention questions and links to doubtful stories. Their questions will be answered on a dedicated website.

Google and Facebook both reliable their appearance in a project, though did not yield additional details.

The initial turn of French elections will be hold on Apr 23. Marine Le Pen, personality of a distant right National Front party, is good positioned to allege to a second turn of a presidential contest. She is not, however, now adored to delight in a second turn runoff.

Google and First Draft News partnered on a identical plan during final year’s U.S. presidential election. The initiative, called Electionland, was directed during stating justification of voter termination during a contest.

Misleading stories and prosaic out feign news have tormented amicable media during vital elections around a world. Facebook, Google (GOOGL, Tech30) and other companies have been underneath heated critique over their proceed to a problem.

Facebook is now attaching warning labels to made-up stories in some markets, and a association has taken stairs to undercut a business indication used by feign news publishers.

First Draft News partners with newsrooms and other organizations to assistance them find, determine and tell calm sourced from amicable media. CNN is a member of the partner network.

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