{"id":23246,"date":"2020-04-02T19:41:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23246"},"modified":"2020-04-02T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:41:52","slug":"google-commits-6-5m-to-fight-misinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23246","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE COMMITS $6.5M TO FIGHT MISINFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Thursday that it would spend $6.5 million toward fighting the spread of misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Funding will go toward fact-checkers, news organizations and nonprofits around the world. The money will also help certain news outlets expose and track coronavirus misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Helping the world make sense of this information requires a broad response, involving scientists, journalists, public figures, technology platforms and many others,&#8221; Alexios Mantzarlis, head of news and information credibility at Google&#8217;s News Lab, wrote in a blog announcing the funding.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact and Kaiser Health News will use some of the funds to expand their fact-checking efforts, while LatamChequea will provide what Mantzarlis described as a &#8220;hub&#8221; to help coordinate the work of almost two dozen Spanish-language fact-checking groups.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will also go to similar groups in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, and to the International Fact-Checking Network, a global advocacy group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Thursday that it would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23247,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions\/23247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}