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Google and YouTube give $13.2 million to launch a new global fact-checking fund

We’ve all seen the fact-checkers at work and what a great job they’ve done. Snopes is now fact-checking Babylon Bee satires, the chair of our short-lived Disinformation Governance Board believed the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, and our president keeps telling audiences his son died in Iraq, and we get nothing.

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Google and YouTube have announced they’re giving $13.2 million to the International Fact-Checking Network to support fact-checking organizations from 65 countries. The International Fact-Checking Network, by the way, is part of the nonprofit (and “nonpartisan”) Poynter Institute.

So, how does it work?

Imagine you see a viral story about dolphins and swans returning to the canals of Venice. A family member sends you a story about a local politician’s colorful past. Or you read a health claim online. Are they true? How do you know? People are often unsure about what information to trust. In fact, interest in the topic of misinformation reached an all-time high worldwide in October this year, according to Google Trends data.

Instead of dolphins, how about if we imagine a presidential candidate’s son’s laptop turning up a bunch of information about the “big guy”?

Google and YouTube remain dedicated to keep doing our part to help you find what you’re looking for and give you the context you need to make informed decisions about what you see online. And we’re committed to continuing to support the journalists and fact-checking organizations on the front lines of the fight against misinformation.

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“Misinformation.”

You mean like reporting that Russia had fired a missile into Poland?

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If they had any credibility left, this might mean something, but they’ve squandered it all.

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