Rome, 6 feb. – Eight French media, including Le Monde, will work with Facebook to reduce the presence of false information on the social network’. ‘In concrete’, reports 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 developed in December in the United States, with the participation of the five media (Abc News, Ap, FactCheck.org, Politifact and Snopes) and should soon 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, Facebook 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 t he media partners, who can verify the information. If the two media determine that the content is fake, the news will be displayed to users with a token red by mentioning that the fact-checker he dispute the veracity. An alert window will open even when the 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 editorial’. ‘There’ all the interest of working together elbow to elbow on these matters,’ adds the director of the Afp, Michele Leridon. At the same time, it was announced the launch of another platform, owned by Google, and supported by Facebook: CrossCheck, which will allow the public to report concerns, and will collect the information from 16 the French media. .
(06 February 2017)
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