Posted on 02/28/2017 7:36:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
An unprecedented joint media project was launched in France on Tuesday with the aim of preventing the very modern plague of fake news stories on Facebook from influencing the French presidential election. But how effective will it be?
A group of 37 French and international media outlets, supported by Google, on Tuesday launched “CrossCheck”, a joint fact-checking platform aimed at detecting fake information which could affect the French presidential election.
Fears that fake news stories posted on social media sites could influence the French election grew in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s shock election win in the United States in November. […]
Even though a study later debunked the idea that fake news was responsible for Trump’s win, in France they are taking no chances.
“We need to give voters all the cards in their hand so they don’t vote on the basis of false rumors,” Clémence Lemaistre from French newspaper Les Echo, one of the partners in CrossCheck, told The Local.
“It’s important for democracy. We don’t want people to vote on the basis of something they happened to read on Facebook,” she added. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Careful elites.
Don’t forget the last French Revolution.
The legacy of de Gaulle still impacts my negative opinion of France positively.
Here’s their first bit of fake news...”France is doing well”
Wait... is that the real news that’s fake news, or the fake news that’s real news ?
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