European Union launches a platform for exposing fake news

With the surge of fake news and the even bigger surge of news discussing fake news, here’s another article discussing a platform aimed at exposing news as fake news.

The European Union launched a new site

The Euvsdisinfo.eu site is a self-proclaimed counter measure against the Kremlin-sponsored news media that often implements fake news and Internet trolling to further the interests of Russia. The site boasts as being “The only searchable database of fake news.” The promo video of Euvsdisinfo demonstrates several pro-Russian fake news stories, like a manufactured narrative of a crucifixion of a separatist fighter by a Ukrainian soldier, or Saudi-Arabia connection to the campaign of Emmanuel Macron.

Of course, since the site is sponsored and ran by the European Union, several conflicts of interest may arise, as the very creed of the site proclaims to be against a state-sponsored news media, while itself being one.

The site’s functions

Euvsdisinfo’s database acts like most other search engines – by the input of keywords. If you have doubts about a news story, try to punch in the main words and topics of the piece. If the story is in the database, you’ll receive the headline and a short rebuttal from the EUvsdisinfo team.

The site will prove a useful tool in the fight against fake news, but not it shouldn't be used a the final word. The best weapon for combating disinformation remains fact-checking through various sources, preferably not state-sponsored or ideological, in the eyes of EU Scoop.