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At a time when disinformation campaigns are on the rise and the French are increasingly distrustful of television (54% according to the latest Kantar Public one-point survey for La Croix), France Télévisions is stepping up its transparency campaign and opening up the news production process in an unprecedented way. Our goal: to keep the French informed!

Just over a year ago, global tech giants, led by Mark Zuckerberg before quietly backtracking in March of this year, promised us a new future that would allow everyone the leisure of venturing into alternate worlds, adopting desired identities, and connecting to the world like never before through the Metaverse. Since November last year, a completely different innovation has been shaking up the world of tech and beyond, as this technology is much more democratizable (and already democratized) than the Metaverse. As you may have easily guessed, we are referring to generative AI!

Finding the truth in the false, or the false in the truth, is a situation we can all be confronted with. At a time where information is consumed on social networks and platforms, it is sometimes difficult to determine what is right. Fact-checking appears to be an activity that should be developed through a new shared tool.

From 29 September to 1 October, the 14th edition of the International Journalism Conference in Tours will take place on the theme of "Climate emergency and journalistic responsibilities". These themes are at the core of France Télévisions' innovation strategy. Visitors were able to discover them on our corner. Here is a overview of what our teams presented on site and public’s feedback.

Fake news is flooding the web and swarming in our private messaging and e-mail inboxes. As a consequence of the public’s growing distrust of the mass media, it is on average, 35% more viral, massively disseminated and relayed. More than a trend it is a real groundswell that is spreading far and wide. This information disorder spares no subject, no medium and no form of communication. Les Révélateurs of FranceTV, France Télévisions’ new image and video fact-checking unit, aims to fight against a particularly pernicious form of this disinformation.

To answer questions about vaccination, France Télévisions offered its first live broadcast on Twitch on January 22nd, in the company of Samuel Etienne and Doctor Damien Mascret. A feedback by Eléonore Gay, Deputy Editorial Director, who was at the heart of the event

Our goal today is to provide these new points of view live, from places where a cameraman can't place himself: a motorcycle during a race, a skydiver during his jump over Paris on July 14th, a cyclist in a peloton of the Tour de France ...

Once again this year, France Télévisions' MediaLab de l'Information et l'Innovation Numérique proposed a new format for the special edition on the 14th of July : throughout the show, five sequences, live from Place de la Concorde, presented the latest French military equipment thanks to a totally unprecedented augmented reality technology. Using consumer equipment, we have developed an ultra-mobile device that enables virtual image sequences filmed by a moving camera, live, and outdoors: a feat that until now has been reserved for organizations and budgets that are very heavy to implement.

On the occasion of the European elections, a "virtual" touch screen appeared (or not, by the way :-) ) on the set. Live, the journalist Guillaume Daret manipulated in space a series of graphic data to decipher political information in real time.

Imagine being teleported to places in a fraction of a second. Imagine living the news in a newsroom. Imagine sharing the daily life of journalists. This is the journey that Jeff and Matt, two journalists/avatars, propose to you in this module made with the MediaLab de l'Information for France tv Education (LUMNI), Get to the heart of the news!