Google's misinformation chief talks fact-checking the pandemic: 'I've never seen anything like this'
$6.5 million to fund to fact-checking organizations and nonprofits that are battling the spread of incorrect information about the coronavirus.
The $6.5 million for fact-checkers will come out of the Google News Initiative, which works with journalists and publishers to combat misinformation. Some will go towards supporting the nonprofit First Draft, which provides various training tools for journalists, as well as to the International Fact-Checking Network. The initiative will also be giving to other organizations around the world including Full Fact and Maldita.
Some of the funds will be distributed to organizations that give journalists access to data and expertise, including SciLine, which has a database of experts on connect reporters with. "I've never seen anything like this, where something in India is almost identically phrased as something in the United States or in my home country of Italy," Mantzarlis said. "The posts are literally making the same types of claims, transforming so the person who's allegedly the expert quoted in the WhatsApp message is no longer the nurse from Milan but your uncle the doctor in Seattle who's seeing the hospital system collapse.
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