In France, Google and Facebook join forces with the newspaper and tv to combat the fake news – Print

Eight French media, including Le Monde, will work with Facebook to “reduce the presence of false information on social network”. “In concrete”, reported today in the daily life of Paris on his website, “the project consists in deploying soon in France, a device similar to the one that was put in place in December in the United States, with the participation of the five media (Abc News, Ap, FactCheck.org, Politifact and Snopes) and should be launched in Germany, with the drafting of Correctiv. In France, In addition to Le Monde, the media partners are the agence France-Press, Bfm Tv, France Televisions, France Medias Monde, L’express, Libération and 20 Minutes. After France, Faceb ook plans to advance the development in other countries”.

The device will allow users, thanks to a new category of alert, to detect a piece of news which is suspected to be false. Links reported end up collected in a portal they have access to the media partners, who can verify the information. If the two media determine that the content is fake, the news will appear to users with a token red by mentioning that the fact-checker he dispute the truthfulness. An alert window will also open when users share the link, and the operation will have no effect on the algorithm that the program the dissemination of the contents. “It is this element that has convinced us,” explains the director of Le Monde, Jerome Fenoglio -. For the first time, it will be possible to intervene on an algorithm when the content poses a problem publishing”. “Is all in the interest of working together elbow to elbow on these matters,” adds the director of the Afp, Michele Leridon.

At the same time, it announced the launch of another platform, owned by Google, and supported by Facebook: CrossCheck, which will allow the public to report concerns and collect the information from 16 the French media.

In the past few days The Monde had already launched a tool to defend yourself from the hoaxes on the web: Decodex, consisting of a search engine guaranteed, a warning on the degree of reliability of the internet site that you are visiting and a bot of Facebook where you can ask questions.