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The French startup Neutral News distinguishes between an article that reports factual information and fake news through a semantic analysis (words, lexical fields, turns of phrase). To do this, it uses Decodex . a database created by journalists from Le Monde that lists more than 5,000 questionable articles, tweets, YouTube videos and Facebook posts. But AI is currently unable to differentiate between false information that is the result of an error and intentional disinformation.


For Tristan Mendès France, Associate Lecturer latvia cell phone number list at Paris Diderotcultures, " There is no well-defined limit between fake news and a factual article. It is rather a continuum on which a cursor must be placed ." Other fact-checking initiatives during the covid-19 crisis Fact-checking organizations and media outlets have been fighting the spread of fake news for several years now, partnering with digital giants to track down false information.


These initiatives have been strengthened during the covid-19 crisis. Facebook pays around sixty media outlets for the use of their “fact checks” on its platform and on Instagram, as part of the “Third party fact-checking” program (launched in December 2016). During the month of March, WhatsApp partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO), while 40 million Facebook posts received a “warning label” , pushing users not to consult this content in 95% of cases.