Interview: Journalists take charge in battle against fake news
CrossCheck is a joint effort among media workers from various outlets to spot and debunk fake news from different political sides, put to work during the latest French presidential elections. ECPMF's Jane Whyatt spoke about the initiative with participant Aline Robert, editor-in-chief of EURACTIV France, as Robert engaged in a Future Media Lab debate about fake news as part of World Press Freedom Day commemorations in Brussels.
ECPMF: What tools did you use through CrossCheck to establish whether the news was fake or true?
We didn't have magic tools to understand, but we did have on the project some websites that…