Using collaboration to fight disinformation online and “fake news”
Nikos Smyrnaios, Sophie Chauvet and Emmanuel Marty, First Draft,CrossCheck was a collaborative journalism project put together to combat disinformation and misinformation online leading up to the 2017 French presidential election. The project involved more than 100 journalists in 33 different newsrooms, who monitored the social web for misleading or manipulated information and debunked those that gained traction.