Facebook, Twitter and news organizations including Agence France-Presse have joined  a coalition of media and technology groups in an attempt to filter out online misinformation and improve news quality on social networks.

The First Draft News, which has been backed by Google, announced that some 20 news organizations will be part of its partner network to share information on best practices for journalism in the online age on Tuesday.

Jenni Sargent, managing director of First Draft, said that the partner network will help advancing the organization's goal of improving news online and on social networks. She said in a blog post, "Filtering out false information can be hard. Even if news organizations only share fact-checked and verified stories, everyone is a publisher and a potential source. We are not going to solve these problems overnight, but we're certainly not going to solve them as individual organizations."

Sargent said that the coalition will develop training programs and "a collaborative verification platform," along with that a voluntary code of practice for online news. She said ,"We live in a time when trust and truth are issues that all newsrooms, and increasingly the social platforms themselves, are facing. Each partner is committed to sharing knowledge, developing policies and devising training in how journalists use the social web to find and report news."

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By Prakriti Neogi