Google will allocate more than $6.5 million to combat misinformation about COVID-19.
At any time, fake news can cause harm and have serious consequences. But it can be even more serious at this time when we are fighting a pandemic. Therefore, all help is important to try to eliminate, or at least reduce, this content.
Fake news can also, in a certain sense, be seen as a real pandemic. This is because, in addition to misinforming, it ends up having a chain reaction effect. In other words, person A shares false content, person B sees it and also shares it with their contacts, and so on until we reach an uncontrollable snowball of misinformation.
Google, like other companies such as Facebook and Amazon, is aware of and committed to combating this real plague.
Google gives $6.5 million to fight fake news about COVID-19
On Thursday, April 2, the American giant announced that it will donate more than 6.5 million dollars, more than 6 million euros, to combat misinformation on the Internet. The main objective of this amount is to fight the ‘pandemic’ of fake news related to COVID-19.
Part of this investment will go to the non-p Belarus Mobile Number List rofit fact-checking agencies Full Fact and Maldita.es. These entities will join forces to debunk misleading content relating to Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Italy is the European country that has suffered the most from COVID-19, with more than 155,000 cases and more than 13,000 deaths.
In addition, as reported by Engadget, Goo Bulgaria B2C Phone List gle will also work with Meedan, a non-profit software company for newsrooms, with NGOs and even academic institutions as a way to improve the quality of digital information.
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