Facebook’s head of news partnerships for Europe has said the social media platform wants to “stamp out” egregious examples of fake news by “disrupting” the business model that fuels it.

Nick Wrenn said that while examples of fake news during the US election campaign had “clearly focused minds” on the issue, it was something Facebook “has been looking at for a long time”.

“The whole idea of being able to go on to Facebook knowing you are in a safe environment and you are part of a community that has the values of respect is really important to us,” he told The Media Briefing podcast.