April 04, 2017

Tech leaders and others launch $14M news integrity



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Facebook and Mozilla are among the companies and organizations launching a $14 million fund to promote news literacy and increase trust in journalism, CNBC reports.

The nonprofit, called the News Integrity Initiative, will be based at the City University of New York which will run as an independent project of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Others contributing to the fund include Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and the Ford Foundation.


False news and misinformation, often masquerading as trustworthy news and spreading on social media, has gained a lot of attention since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the report said


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