TRUSTED NEWS INITIATIVE
The BBC’s global Trusted News Initiative will be extending its efforts to identifying false and potentially harmful information on the coronavirus pandemic.
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- The initiative will have in place a system in which partners will be able to alert each other to disinformation about COVID-19.
- This will enable partner platforms such as Facebook and Google to review promptly and the publishers in the network can ensure that the information is not republished.
- The Trusted News Initiative, in which the BBC partners with other leading global news and technology organisations, was announced in June 2019.
- The partners within the initiative are: the BBC, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, AFP, Reuters, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, CBC/Radio-Canada, First Draft and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Source: The Hindu