Welcome to the Tech Mem Ryan home for Tuesday, March 20th, 2018.

Today, Google wants to support journalism, more on the Facebook Cambridge Analytica

saga, more on the self-driving car fatality, YouTube rolls out a go live

feature and scandal rocks the world of

h-cute trivia. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Google announced today that it will spend 300 million dollars over the next three years to support journalism and fight disinformation through a new

program known as the Google News Initiative.

According to Google, the initiative will have three specific goals.

Highlighting accurate journalism while fighting misinformation, helping news sites to grow their business,

especially in a digital context, and creating new tools to help journalists do their jobs.

Google has, of course course had several high profile run-ins recently with

disinformation appearing on its various platforms such as YouTube and Google News.

Google also announced that it would launch a new Dis-Info Lab to fight fake news, especially

during times of breaking news and around elections.

The initiative will apparently have 17 launch partners including the New York

Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, McClatchy, Telegraph, Labra Publica, but as Professor Jeff Jarvis noted on Twitter, quote,

amusing that the Church of Paywalls, News Corp, is not there. In a related story, Google also announced as one of the first programs in the news initiative,

a new subscribe with Google feature, which lets users buy subscriptions to new sites using Google accounts and access them from their

apps, the individual websites, and Google's own search results.

According to Google, subscribe with Google lets you buy a

subscription using your Google account on participating news sites. Select the

publisher offer you'd like to participate in, click subscribe and you're done. From then on, you can

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