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Google Launches a News Initiative To Fight False News and Help Publishers Make Money (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the fixing-things dept.

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.

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  1. Avoid Fake news? by bobbied · · Score: 0, Troll

    How's that? Most of the referenced sites ARE fake news...

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    1. Re: Avoid Fake news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yup. Mainstream media = Fake news.

  2. Re:How about proper labeling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everyone please quit reinforcing the Trump team's labels for the bullshit they spew. It's not "fake news". It's not "alternative facts". Lies, fabrications, outright bullshit, yes, but not news or facts, alternate or otherwise. Call them on their bullshit.

    Facts simply are. If you're working with alternatives to facts, you're working with lies, not facts.

    News is supposed to be a reporting of facts. If it's not news, it's not truth: it's a fabrication; a made-up story; speculation; lies; a steaming pile of poo.

    Pandering to the liars by repeating their lies just encourages them.