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Google Launches a News Initiative To Fight False News and Help Publishers Make Money (cnbc.com)
Google is launching the Google News Initiative, a journalism-focused program that will help publishers earn revenue and combat fake news. From a report: The initiative, announced Tuesday, will offer publications another monetization model online called Subscribe with Google, as well as work with established universities and groups to combat misinformation. It will also introduce an open-source tool called Outline, which will make it easier for news organizations to set up secure access to the internet for their journalists. Google said it was committing $300 million over the next three years to the project, though it did not elaborate on how the resources would be spent.
The company said it paid $12.6 billion to news organizations and drove 10 billion clicks a month to their websites for free last year. Subscribe with Google will make it easier for readers to pay for content from news organizations that have agreed to partner with the company. FT.com, The Washington Post, and McClatchy Company publications including the Miami Herald are among the 17 launch partners.
The company said it paid $12.6 billion to news organizations and drove 10 billion clicks a month to their websites for free last year. Subscribe with Google will make it easier for readers to pay for content from news organizations that have agreed to partner with the company. FT.com, The Washington Post, and McClatchy Company publications including the Miami Herald are among the 17 launch partners.
Interesting.
The NYT ran a story about how [Trump's CIA pick] Gina Haspel had a role in torture during her admin of a Thailand black site.
That was later shown to be completely false (Haspel took over months after the tortures had ended). Pro Publica printed a retraction of their story, but the NYT did not.
For comparison, Infowars is widely decried (*) as fake news for publishing the "Spirit Cooking" article, which is completely accurate in all its claims.
Now congress-people are falling over themselves saying they will block Haspel's appointment to the CIA.
What are the chances that these congressmen get their information from the NYT, are well-meaning, and yet misinformed?
(*) That exact article is listed as an example of fake news in at least one scientific study of fake news! It's also debunked as "false" on Snopes.com