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Added on the 13/04/2022 16:24:55 - 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.
French expats living in Moscow cast their ballots in the presidential run-off between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his challenger Marine Le Pen, after a fractious campaign that has seen the far right come its closest yet to winning power. IMAGES
National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen takes selfies with activists as she arrives outside the polling station where she is voting in Hénin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais. IMAGES
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen arrive as leaders of European far-right and nationalist parties meet in Warsaw with the aim of creating a powerful new alliance that would become the second-biggest grouping in the European Parliament. The talks will include around 14 parties and are being hosted by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party. IMAGES
Marine le Pen pays tribute, during a short ceremony, to the victims of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, created by the Nazis during the Second World War. The candidate of the Rassemblement National in the French presidential elections is visiting the Polish capital to attend a meeting of far-right and conservative political parties that have signed a declaration for an alliance in the European Parliament. IMAGES
Known for his anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric, French far-right pundit Eric Zemmour has teased his political ambitions since the start of the year and is beginning a national book tour "to meet the French people". IMAGES