A group of major news publishers and tech giants are preparing to collaborate in the fight against disinformation ahead of the US election.

The Trusted News Initiative launched last year and has recently been focusing on countering false claims about coronavirus after similar work on the 2019 UK general election and the presidential poll in Taiwan in January.

The BBC, Financial Times, Reuters, AFP, Wall Street Journal and India-based English-language newspaper The Hindu are among the publishers involved alongside Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter.