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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.
Millions of French voters were casting ballots Sunday to pick the presidential candidate for the centre-right Republicans party. Ex-Prime minister Francois Fillon is tipped to win and voted in Paris around 10am local time. IMAGES.
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.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen votes in the first round of the French parliament elections in her stronghold of Henin-Beaumont in the Pas-de-Calais region. IMAGES
"We're going to talk about the future, we're going to talk about the legislative elections," Marine Le Pen says as she arrives at the Rassemblement National's national office in Paris, the day after her defeat by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election. IMAGES
French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen casts her vote in Hénin-Beaumont, in the northern Pas-de-Calais region, in the second round of the presidential election, where she faces incumbent Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
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