{"id":21431,"date":"2017-02-06T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=21431"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:42:05","slug":"facebook-google-others-launch-drive-fake-news-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/facebook-google-others-launch-drive-fake-news-france.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France:-<\/strong> Social media companies Facebook, Google and a group of news organizations launched an initiative on Monday to tackle fake news stories in France, with the media in the spotlight as the country&#39;s presidential election approaches.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook said it would work with several leading French news organizations, including Agence France-Presse, BFM TV, and newspapers L&#39;Express and Le Monde to ensure that false news items were not published on its platform.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Google also said it was part of the initiative, dubbed &quot;Cross Check&quot; by the partners.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year&#39;s U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">There have been similar concerns that people could disseminate false information on Facebook in the build-up to the French election, which takes place in April and May.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In the United States, Facebook has said users would in future find it easier to flag fake articles as a hoax, and added that it will work with organizations such as fact-checking website Snopes, ABC News and the Associated Press to check the authenticity of stories.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Last month, Facebook also set up an initiative against fake news in Germany, where government officials had expressed concerns that false stories and hate speech online could influence a parliamentary election in September in which chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term in office.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-election-facebook-idUSKBN15L0QU<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/facebook-google-others-launch-drive-fake-news-france.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France:- Social media companies Facebook, Google and a group of news organizations launched an initiative on Monday to tackle fake news stories in France, with the media in the spotlight as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12683,13193,7760,3299,547],"class_list":["post-21431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-angela-merkel","tag-facebook-google-others-launch-drive-against-fake-news-in-france","tag-france","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}