Fake plastic news - let's play our part

I'm very proud that International Business Times is part of a partnership of 37 European publishers with First Draft News on its CrossCheck coalition.

We are looking at fake news around the French presidential election. Many thanks to its director Jenni Sargent for the invitation.

Sophie Chauvet, an intern from the London School of Economics, is currently sitting on our new features and trending desk, working with colleagues around Europe to debunk stories.

It's great for International Business Times to be collaborating with the BBC, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Channel 4 News, Les Echos and AFP.

It's an even better feeling to be positively contributing to screening out fake news.

You can read more about what we are doing in this Digiday piece.