Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/facebook-twitter-social-media-newsgathering
This article talks about Google-backed First Draft. This is a programme that would ensure that broadcasters and social platforms would ensure that they are distributing effective and truthful stories rather than fake ones. This would ensure that it would also make obtaining news as a user easier as they would try and improve newsgathering so that then it could make news distribution of a greater quality. Quite recently Facebook and Twitter have joined in First Draft. This would mean that a majority of the citizen journalism that would occur could now be verified so that an audience isn't deceived into think that fake news stories are real.
- "more than 20 news organisations to have signed up to the partner network, which is being organised through Google-backed First Draft"
- "Other organisations joining the network include Al Jazeera’s AJ+, Breaking News, International Business Times UK, Reveal project, Euronews, Amnesty International, European Journalism Centre and American Press Institute"
In my opinion, I think that this would be a great way for the news to be more trustworthy. This would be because sometimes news can tend to show a certain bias towards a side if it is UGC such as citizen journalism which would only show the perspective of the footage and the footage that is present may be based on a certain part of an event which may tell a different narrative to the audience as opposed to what actually happened. Therefore this would debunk some of the fake stories and change the way and quality that is distributed in both Facebook and Twitter to ensure impartiality.
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