BEIJING, November 7. /TASS/. TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov has invited interested media outlets, journalists, and independent experts to join the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN).
"I would like to take this opportunity to invite all interested news agencies, TV channels, print and digital publications, as well as individual journalists and independent experts, to join our association," Kondrashov said at the opening ceremony of the 7th World Media Summit at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital.
He said that TASS had co-founded GFCN, which already unites more than 130 experts from 55 countries.
According to Kondrashov, the association uses artificial intelligence, among other things, to identify unreliable materials at the early stages of their distribution. Its specialists also strive to identify the original source of a fake, trace the chain of its distribution and find out how it was launched into the information space.
As the TASS CEO noted, participation in the association is free; potential members are not presented with political conditions, they are not required to "undergo an ideological reliability check," and they are not asked to "demonstrate ...