The program, named “Objectif Désinfox”, aims to fight against infoxes in the run-up to the presidential election, but also the legislative ones.
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A initiative more in the fight against infox. AFP and Google France announced, Monday, December 6, the launch of a program to fight against disinformation, called “Objective Désinfox”, with a view to the presidential and legislative elections.
“Access to this project will be free and managed by AFP with complete editorial independence, thanks to financial support from Google”, said AFP CEO Fabrice Fries at the annual conference devoted to “New Practices in Journalism” at Sciences-Po Paris. “This training and collaboration program, intended for French editorial staff, will be based on an alliance of the media and fact-checking organizations interested in the fight against disinformation”, according to the joint press release of the two companies.
This alliance is based on five main pillars. First: thematic online training from mid-January for all media and fact-checking organizations that are members of the alliance, to teach journalists about digital investigation.
Second: the creation of a collaborative platform to exchange between members of the alliance which will include a system for reporting false or misleading content to the general public and which will feed all the partner editorial staff.
Third: monthly thematic meetings hosted by AFP, to which all members will be invited, with the participation of speakers and external experts (researchers, sociologists, etc.).
Fourth: the provision of AFP political fact-checking content for alliance members on the AFP Factuel site and on the “AFP Fact Check” YouTube channel.
Fifth: an accompaniment and support program for fact-checking editorial staff, members of the alliance in the creation and production of their own content. This content will benefit from the “Objectif Désinfox” label and AFP will produce videos of the best productions.