Facebook and Twitter join coalition to improve social media newsgathering
by Jasper Jackson from Technology | The Guardian on (#1TK2H)
Channel 4 News, Telegraph, New York Times, Washington Post and BuzzFeed have also signed up to network organised through Google-backed First Draft
Facebook and Twitter have signed up to a coalition of news organisations aimed at improving reporting from social media and tackling fake news.
Channel 4 News, the Telegraph, the New York Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, ABC News in Australia and Agence France-Presse are among more than 20 news organisations to have signed up to the partner network, which is being organised through Google-backed First Draft.
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