Description
Added on the 03/12/2015 20:10:51 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
The anti-fascist movement "The Sardines" hold a rally in Bologna, a week before regional elections in Emilia-Romagna. IMAGES
French striker Olivier Giroud, gave a press conference at the team's base in Clairefontaine outside Paris, Monday, following Sunday's quarter-final victory over Iceland.
Major disappointment for Marine Le Pen Sunday as her far right National Front did not win any of France's 18 regions. The result, however, is the best in the history of the far right party.
France goes to the polls on Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections, with a resurgent and newly unified left seeking to thwart President Emmanuel Macron's plans for reform. Elections for the 577 seats in the lower house National Assembly are a two-round process. The shape of the new parliament will become clear only after the second round, a week later, on June 19. IMAGES of France's National Assembly exterior
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
