Introduction

Google announces it will spend 300 million dollars over the next three years to support journalism and fight disinformation. Google also announced that it would launch a new dis o lab to fight fake news, especially during times of breaking news and around elections. The initiative will apparently have 17 launch partners, including the new york times, financial times, washington post, mc clatche telegraph, la republica. But as professor jff jarvis noted on twitter, quot amusing that the church of pay walls news corp is not there.