Social networks join forces to stop the spread of bogus news

Facebook and Twitter have joined likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and others to improve the quality of information on social media. The group hopes to target fake news and misinformation, although it stops short of saying what steps it would take or how it’d react once it’s found.

First Draft Coalition, an Alphabet-backed venture, said it’d create a voluntary code of practice, attempt to increase news literacy among social media users and launch a platform intended to verify questionable sources of information.

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