New Factcheck sites for French Presidential elections.
Newspapers pay a key role in forming the opinion
of the French electorate according to
the recent Baromètre des médias, l’intérêt des Français pour l’actualité au
plus bas depuis 2002 published last week by newspaper La Croix and Kantar
Public. According to this in terms of the 2017 presidential election. 74% felt
that the media provided a source of verified information to follow the
campaigns.
With recent
concerns about Fake news Seventeen local and national
newsrooms in France, including AFP, Buzzfeed News, Les Echos, Le Monde, Libération
and La Voix Du Nord have joined a collaborative journalism verification project
CrossCheck. which
has been created by First Draft and Google News Lab. It will be formally launched
on February 27th. It will be using a number of different tools to verify news
accuracy including Google Trends, Crwod Tangle social media checking and Le
Monde’s Le Décodex, a
growing database of more than 600 news sites where users can enter a URL
to find out if a site is considered ‘real;’ or ‘fake’
Another famous French fact checking site
supported by left leaning paper Libération, is Désintox, a site aimed at verifying and fact-checking
political claims. Using the search engine on the site or the browser extension
available for Chrome and Firefox, readers can find out how trustworthy a site
is with the help of a colour-coded system. Green stands for highly reliable
pages, sites marked in yellow should be read with caution, and red means a site
which they feel often publishes fake news . Recently have also launched the
more specific L'Oeil sur le
Front” in November, which concentrates on claims attributed and made by Marine
Le Pen’s right-wing party, the National Front.
