Against the “fake news”, eight French media, including The Express, is combined with Facebook – The Express

Facebook continues its operation “white paw”. After the american election, polluted by a massive diffusion of “fake news” [false information] on social networks, and the approach of the presidential election in France, the company of Mark Zuckerberg has decided to react.

In a press release published on Monday 6 February, the california-based company has announced the creation of a partnership with eight French media, including The Express, but also BFMTV, Liberation, AFP, The World, which just launched another tool of information, Décodex-, 20 Minutes, France Television and France Media World.

users report, the media investigate

The project will consist, in a first time, to test a mechanism already in place in Germany and the United States with ABC News, AP, Factcheck.org, Politifact and Snopes. The principle is simple: the French users of the social network will be able to report information they believe to be false, in the same way that they can already report a link that is offensive, violent, pornographic, etc., But this time choosing ‘tab of a “Fake news”.

The links will then be gathered within a portal to which media partners have access. If at least two of the eight media investigate the content and determine that it is false, then the link will appear on the social network with an alert indicating that “fact-chekers” [auditors of facts] “question the veracity” of the content.

screen Capture video to Facebook explaining its system of reporting by internet users and verification by journalists.

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After France, Facebook should continue the experience in other countries.

CrossCheck, the Google tool

Facebook is not the only giant of the net to want to tackle the disinformation. The network First Draft News and Google announced the launch on the 27th of February of the tool “CrossCheck”. This time, the 17 editors who will try “to identify and verify the content circulating online, whether photos, videos, comments or news sites,” according to a statement released by Google.

CrossCheck will allow journalists to share information to rapidly get back the content misleading. Each media will then be able to exploit this common audit in its own content or publications on social networks. Users can also report items that were judged to be impaired.