good & new alternative to the media
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jeff Beer1 minute Read
We
all know that Google, Facebook, and Apple are ramping up their efforts
to fight the phenomenon of fake news. But for the recent French
presidential election, one newspaper took a decidedly lo-fi approach to
creating a new search engine.
Libération worked with ad agency JWT Paris to launch CheckNews.fr,
not run on algorithms but with real journalists researching real
questions. If you sent in a question, a journalist would track down the
truth behind the answer, with each query taking an average of 2.5 hours.
It may have been “the slowest search engine on earth,” but the paper
also boasted it was the most reliable.
