Tech giants, progressive news groups to 'train journalists'

A coalition of left-leaning tech giants will team up with progressive media outlets in order to “train journalists” and protect the public from “false information,” according to an announcement made Tuesday.

“Filtering out false information can be hard. Even if news organizations only share fact-checked and verified stories, everyone is a publisher and a potential source,” Jenni Sargent, managing director of Google’s First Draft News, wrote in a Tuesday blog post. “We are not going to solve these problems overnight, but we’re certainly not going to solve them as individual organizations.”