Google and YouTube make $13.2 million grant to fight disinformation

The $13.2 million grant will go to the non-profit organization Poynter Institute, which owns the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). it is planned

The American company GOOGLE and video hosting YouTube will allocate $13.2 million as a grant to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to combat disinformation, according to a company blog.

“Today, Google and YouTube are announcing a $13.2 million International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) grant from the nonprofit Poynter Institute to launch a new global fact checking fund to support their network of 135 fact checking organizations from 65 countries covering more than 80 languages,” the report says.

Helping people identify disinformation is a “global challenge,” Google said, and the new fund will help IFCN “scale existing operations or launch new ones that increase the level of information, increase the credibility of sources, and reduce the harm of false and disinformation around the world.” The fund will begin its work in early 2023.

The Poynter Institute is an American nonprofit dedicated to journalism education and research. The NPO owns the Tampa Bay Times and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The organization also operates a fact-checking website for political experts, PolitiFact.com.

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After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Washington stepped up pressure on Moscow, including accusing it of conducting disinformation campaigns and in a hybrid war. Back in January, the US State Department released a list of examples of Moscow's "false statements" about the situation in Ukraine. The department attributed each statement to RUSSIA and accompanied it with its own vision of what was happening. In response to Moscow's claims that Kyiv is an aggressor in Russian-Ukrainian relations, the State Department, on the contrary, blamed Moscow for this and refuted the thesis that it was the West that was pushing Ukraine into conflict.

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At the Foreign Ministry, the State Department material was then called "a passage of inhuman lies."