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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.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned on the attack, saying that France has been attacked, and that they need to defend it without weakness.
Hollande will visit the scene of a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and then hold an emergency government meeting.
Before presiding over the 7th edition of the "Choose France" summit aimed at attracting foreign investors to the country, French President Emmanuel Macron visits Microsoft near Paris and meets with its president, Brad Smith. 180 foreign business leaders use the summit at the Chateau of Versailles to announce the construction or expansion of factories or other investments in France totalling more than 15 billion euros. IMAGES
On the second day of the Chinese leader's state visit, Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan are greeted by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron as they disembark from the plane on the tarmac at Tarbes airport in the Pyrenees, one of the French president's favourite childhood haunts. IMAGES