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January 12, 2021Google announced the open fund in mid-January. Google’s news and information credibility lead, Alexios Mantzarlis, said they received more than 300 applications from 74 countries in the three-week application window. The scope of the winning projects is pretty remarkable. The audiences targeted include a range from Catholics to Pekeño 77 fans, the elderly to 18- to 26-year-olds, people with disabilities in Spain to wet market workers in Indonesia. Mantzarlis served as director for Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and managing director of the Italian fact-checking organization Pagella Politica before arriving at Google. He says many of these projects mark the first time as far as he or Google knows that fact checking will be done in these formats. ....
Google News Showcase set to launch in NZ, providing new funding for media stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and PR Manager, Google West Africa, explains. The Open Fund builds on support provided by the GNI, in April and December of last year, to news efforts fighting pandemic misinformation. They anticipate that the selected projects will also benefit from GNI-supported research into the most effective formats, headlines and sources to counter COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. A total 309 applications were received from 74 countries, with Africa Check partnering with Theatre for a Change for the purposes of their project. They will produce a series of interactive radio drama shows, in Wolof in Senegal and in Pidgin in Nigeria, to present fact-checking in a more participatory way. ....
Our vaccine hesitancy problem New Zealand’s long-term strategy for managing the impact of Covid-19 is to achieve herd immunity via mass vaccination. But a significant number of people are likely to refuse the vaccine. Many of them will do so because of misplaced fears about the vaccine, stoked by misinformation. Across the country, the proportion of Māori children and babies vaccinated against a range of diseases is about 5 percentage points lower than for children and babies of European ethnicity. Among people aged over 65, there is a 9 percentage point gap in vaccination rates for the existing flu vaccine between non-Māori and Māori. ....