Facebook, Twitter and news associations including Agence France-Presse have joined a coalition of media and innovation groups trying to filter through online misinformation and enhance news quality on social networks. First Draft News, which is upheld by Google, reported Tuesday that around 20 news associations will be a part of its system to share information on best practices for journalism in the online age.
Jenni Sargent, managing director of First Draft, said the network will help the association's objective of enhancing news online and on social organizations. "Filtering out false information can be hard. Even if news organizations only share fact-checked and verified stories, everyone is a publisher and a potential source," she said in a blog post. "We are not going to solve these problems overnight, but we're certainly not going to solve them as individual organizations."
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Sargent said the coalition will create training programs and "a collaborative verification platform," as well as a voluntary code of practice for online news. "We live in a time when trust and truth are issues that all newsrooms, and increasingly the social platforms themselves, are facing," she said. "Each partner is committed to sharing knowledge, developing policies and devising training in how journalists use the social web to find and report the news."
The declaration comes in the midst of worries over the developing role of social networks, particularly Facebook, in conveying and filtering news, and now and then permitting scams and falsehood to proliferate. The partner network incorporates Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, The New York Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, CNN, ABC News of Australia, ProPublica, AFP, The Telegraph, France Info, Breaking News, Le Monde's Les Decodeurs, International Business Times UK, Eurovision News Exchange and Al Jazeera Media Network.
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Different associations in the system incorporate Amnesty International, European Journalism Center, American Press Institute, International Fact Checking Network and Duke Reporters' Lab." First Draft was framed a year ago with backing from Google News Lab and has worked with YouTube on confirming user created recordings, among different undertakings.
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