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The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. Fact-checkers have been hard at work debunking falsehoods online, with nearly 10,000 fact checks about the pandemic currently showing up across our products.
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is exacerbating a perennial problem of misinformation about immunization. To support additional debunking efforts, the Google News Initiative is launching a COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund worth up to $3 million.
While the COVID-19 infodemic has been global in nature, misinformation has also been used to target specific populations. Some of the available research also suggests that the audiences coming across misinformation and those seeking fact checks don’t necessarily overlap.
For this reason, the Open Fund is accepting applications from projects that aim to broaden the audience of fact checks, particularly with those who may be disproportionately affected by misinformation in mind.
The fund is global and open to news organizations of every size that have a proven track record in fact-checking and debunking activities, or partner with an organization with such recognition.
We will prioritize collaborative projects with an interdisciplinary team and clear ways to measure success. For example, eligible applications might include a partnership between an established fact-checking project and a media outlet with deep roots in a specific community, or a collaborative technology platform for journalists and doctors to jointly source misinformation and publish fact checks.
A global team of Googlers will review applications. The jury that will choose grantees is composed by the following:
Theresa Amobi, Senior Lecturer, University of Lagos
Ludovic Blecher, Head of Innovation, Google News Initiative
Renee DiResta, Technical Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observer
Susannah Eliott, CEO, Australian Science Media Centre
Gagandeep Kang, Head of the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College
Alexios Mantzarlis, News and Information Credibility Lead, Google
Syed Nazakat, Founder & CEO, Data Leads
Ifeoma Ozoma, Founder and Principal, Earthseed
Baybars Örsek, Director, International Fact-Checking Network
Andy Pattison, manager of digital solutions, World Health Organization
Angela Pimenta, Director of Operations, Projor
Amy Pisani, Executive Director, Vaccinate Your Family
Yamil Velez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Brian Yau, Promotion & Engagement Lead, Vaccine Safety Net at WHO
The Open Fund builds on support the GNI has provided to news efforts fighting pandemic misinformation in April and December of last year. We expect that selected projects will benefit from research the GNI is supporting into the formats, headlines and sources that are most effective in correcting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Finally, we continue to make high quality, authoritative information about vaccines available in our products. We are continuing to expand the number of countries with information panels on authorized vaccines in Google Search, and we continue to surface fact checks across Google by using ClaimReview. We expanded the features in which users come across fact checks in 2020—in the COVID-19 Google News topic in the U.S., on Google News on mobile in Brazil and in Google Images globally.
Please visit the Open Fund’s website to read more about eligibility criteria and find out how to apply.
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