Reuters hired Hazel Baker, who came from Skynews,

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This is a population that doesn’t trust newsrooms anyway, and they say they distrust all powers.” Tai Nalon, director of Aos fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking platform (@aosfatos), adds: " WhatsApp is the second source of information for Brazilians behind Facebook. 87% of them say they trust their community more than the media." I already knew about this phenomenon thanks to Meta-media, but the multiplication of dizzying figures makes one shudder. What struck me most, coming from competent and experienced journalists, is the absence of a solution, even a theoretical one.



"Whatever we do," admits Jane Lytvynenko (Buzzfeed news), "those gambling data switzerland who turn their backs on "quality" journalism will never believe us. " "Unfortunately, it is not for them that we work," adds Nadine Ajaka, head of the Washington Post's video platform, a specialist in detecting fake videos. The response is being organized All is not lost. The media, at least those that have the means, have structured themselves to detect disinformation when possible (not on closed messaging services, therefore). If a few rare management committees try to empower and train all their journalists without a specialized service, almost all the managers we met say they have chosen teams dedicated to verification, still or moving images being considered the most sensitive area.


to create a team of twelve people capable of verifying and, if necessary, debunking all content outside the agency (UGC, User Generated Content) 24 hours a day. Hazel even sets traps for her team . Jane Lytvynenko is also a specialist. There are two of them working exclusively on disinformation at Buzzfeed News: "The media is now well organized to detect fake news. So, rather than dealing with each one of them, we now focus on investigative pieces on those who manufacture disinformation.