Summary: there is an international cohort of News organisations which includes Channel 4, Buzzfeed News and The New York Times, who Facebook and Twitter have teamed up with in order to make improvements on how news is being reported. One particular area that they are working on is trying to avoid the outburst of false stories that are being shared online.
- The aim is to improve newsgathering, and make verification of information from social media more effective and easier to access.
- Improve the experience of eyewitnesses
My opinion:
I think that the overall idea is good and it is a necessity to tackle inaccurate news stories especially in today's society where a lot of people instantly believe what they read as 'news' on social media sites such as facebook and twitter. However there may be problems of these 'news stories' being perceived as fake when in fact they are just rooted by opinion, it may be hard and costly to tackle all these stories on an individual level especially without creating some sort of further bias/ conformity especially with such huge powerful news companies becoming increasingly involved.
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