Libération created a journalist-powered search engine during the French presidential election to fight fake news with real facts.

“Libération worked with ad agency JWT Paris to launch CheckNews.fr, not run on algorithms but with real journalists researching real questions. If you sent in a question, a journalist would track down the truth behind the answer, with each query taking an average of 2.5 hours[emphasis added]. It may have been “the slowest search engine on earth,” but the paper also boasted it was the most reliable.” See the YouTube video describing the service the newspaper provided – citizens asked questions and “real journalists” answered them.