The digital promotion entity Mobile World Capital Barcelona announced on Tuesday the upcoming development of its own digital tool, supported by Google.org, to combat fake news through a program open to the fact-checking community.
The tool will be called Fact-Checking Suite and it aims to help check the information published in digital channels more quickly, explained the CEO of Mobile World Capital, Francesc Fajula.
The agreement with Google was presented at the annual mobile technology world congress MWC, which is being held today in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
“This tool will increase the reach and impact of ‘fact-checkers’, improving their ability to detect trends and disinformation campaigns”, Fajula assured.
The program that Mobile World Capital will develop is aimed at Spanish organizations from the news fact-checking ecosystem, including the media and civil society.
They may also operate in the co-official Spanish languages, Catalan, Basque or Galician.
Fajula and Miguel Escassi, director of Public Policies and Institutional Relations of Google Spain, formalized on Tuesday the funds that Google.org will contribute to the project.
“Europe and the world have to know that, in their fight against disinformation, they will find an ally in Google to make the information on the web, as well as orderly, true”, Escassi argued.
Manuel Szapiro, representative of the European Commission in Barcelona, warned of the danger of disinformation, for example false news that is distributed about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “What is at stake here is democracy,” he emphasized.
Source: EFE
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