PARIS: France-based non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders launched its Journalism Trust Initiative on Tuesday , a platform aimed at battling disinformation by identifying and promoting"trustworthy" news sources.
In a statement, the organisation described it as a"game-changing transparency tool ... with the aim of building a healthier news ecosystem, identifying and rewarding reliable reporting and restoring audiences' confidence in journalism at large". "In the current information chaos, falsehoods, propaganda and hate speech have a competitive advantage over journalism," said Christophe Deloire, secretary general of RSF."If we want to get out of this downward spiral, we have to reverse the logic by incentivising journalism through a trusted third-party mechanism."