{"id":1755346,"date":"2022-11-29T13:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755346"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:34:14","slug":"google-spends-millions-to-launch-global-fact-check-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-spends-millions-to-launch-global-fact-check-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Spends Millions to Launch &#8220;Global Fact Check&#8221; Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-spends-millions-to-launch-global-fact-check-fund%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_Google_YT.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, Google and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-youtube-censors-russell-brand-on-eve-of-his-new-rumble-show-debut\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/google-news-initiative\/how-google-and-youtube-are-investing-in-fact-checking\/\">announced<\/a> that they will be providing a $13.2 million grant to the nonprofit Poynter Institute&#8217;s International <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cnn-fact-checks-elon-musks-meme-mocking-them-for-hating-free-speech\">Fact Checking<\/a> Network with the goal of launching a new &#8220;Global <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/twitter-fact-checks-elizabeth-warrens-claim-that-biden-has-authority-to-bypass-congress-to-forgive-student-loan-debt\">Fact Check<\/a> Fund,&#8221; set to launch in early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which marks the companies&#8217; largest <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/top-us-economist-fact-checked-by-facebook-for-stating-the-country-is-in-a-recession\/\">fact-checking<\/a> grant to date, comes as they continue to ramp up their <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-youtube-censors-russell-brand-on-eve-of-his-new-rumble-show-debut\">fight<\/a> against &#8220;misinformation&#8221; online.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/google-news-initiative\/how-google-and-youtube-are-investing-in-fact-checking\/\">Google and YouTube<\/a>, the grant will &#8220;support [the Poynter Institute&#8217;s] network of 135 fact-checking organizations from 65 countries covering over 80 languages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The companies justified their decision by noting that &#8220;helping people to identify misinformation is a global challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Global Fact Check Fund,&#8221; they explained, &#8220;will help fact-checkers to scale existing operations or launch new ones that elevate information, uplift credible sources and reduce the harm of mis- and disinformation around the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Organizations are expected to use the funding to &#8220;incorporate new technologies, create or expand digital footprints, optimize verification tools, and increase their capacities to deepen audience engagement through innovative storytelling formats such as audio, video, or podcasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world needs fact-checking more than ever before,&#8221; IFCN executive director Baybars \u00d6rsek said. &#8220;This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction, and while there\u2019s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, investments in programs aimed at tackling mis- and disinformation online have grown in tandem with peoples&#8217; interest and awareness in the subject.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&#038;q=%2Fm%2F06vn82\"> data<\/a> from Google, in October 2022, interest in mis- and disinformation across the world reached its highest point since 2004, when records began, with the most pressing topic being the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, big tech&#8217;s fact-checking apparatus went into overdrive as companies struggled to keep up with information that seemed to be changing on a daily, if not hourly basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has been criticized for its <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-anti-woke-comedian-chrissie-mayr-makes-rumble-debut-after-youtube-strike\">crackdowns<\/a> on those who shared ideas that opposed the mainstream, many of whom have had their views vindicated in the months since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Google and YouTube announced that they will be providing a $13.2 million grant to the nonprofit Poynter Institute&#8217;s International Fact Checking Network with the goal of launching a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}