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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news » Nieman Journalism Lab

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Curated: 08/05/2017 from www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-launches-wikitribune-news-by-the-people-and-for-the-people/

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combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking... professional journalists will be paid to write “global news stories,” while volunteer contributors will “vet the facts, helps make sure the language is factual and neutral... transparent about the source of news, posting full transcripts, video, and audio of interviews... pro journalists and editors provide the supervision on how the story moves forward. The crowd does ... a lot of the combing, sifting, searching, checking. You let the crowd do what the crowd is good at.”

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