Fake news clampdown: Google gives £150,000 to fact-checking projects
This article further explains how Google plans to invest the money they proposed a few weeks ago. This plan is to invest in UK companies that are trying to tackle how journalists can tell if a piece of news is 'fake'. They propose to invest around £1500000 in 3 UK businesses to help them create a fact checking tool so they don't make mistakes.
I believe this is a good thing for the industry because even recently iv'e been seeing a lot more fake news circulating around, especially during the US elections i was fooled by a piece myself. It happens to a lot of people now and it is quite hard to differentiate between whats real and what isn't because were not really given a reason to suggest that a piece of news is fake if it comes from a source. Therefore, having professional institutions do the fact checking means we may be more likely to trust it more, however we may never be able to fully trust the news we find circulating around on social media as there aren't many procedures around to stop people from posting fake news stories. The problems with social media sites like Twitter is that if people start re-tweeting and liking a post it will no doubt catch on and when it does it can spread around everywhere and if the news is fake then it can impact many people.
I believe this is a good thing for the industry because even recently iv'e been seeing a lot more fake news circulating around, especially during the US elections i was fooled by a piece myself. It happens to a lot of people now and it is quite hard to differentiate between whats real and what isn't because were not really given a reason to suggest that a piece of news is fake if it comes from a source. Therefore, having professional institutions do the fact checking means we may be more likely to trust it more, however we may never be able to fully trust the news we find circulating around on social media as there aren't many procedures around to stop people from posting fake news stories. The problems with social media sites like Twitter is that if people start re-tweeting and liking a post it will no doubt catch on and when it does it can spread around everywhere and if the news is fake then it can impact many people.
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