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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.
Jorge Alvarez Maynez, presidential candidate for the Citizens' Movement Party, arrives at the National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters in Mexico City for the first debate ahead of the presidential elections on June 2. IMAGES
Xochitl Galves, presidential candidate of the opposition parties PRD, PRI and PAN, arrives at the National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters in Mexico City for the first debate ahead of the presidential elections on June 2. IMAGES
Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate for the ruling party MORENA, arrives at the National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters in Mexico City for the first debate ahead of the presidential elections on June 2. IMAGES
Hundreds of people wait in line outside the Russian embassy in Paris to cast their votes on the final day of the Russian presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is running virtually unopposed. Victory would allow the former KGB agent to stay in the Kremlin until at least 2030, longer than any Russian leader since Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century and eclipsing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
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