Funding to help 'fact-checking' and 'pre-bunking' of fake news recommended in report

Disinformation has been described as a 'serious challenge' and 'global scourge'. Picture: Getty Images

Funding to support “fact-checking" and the "pre-bunking” of fake news is among the suggestions outlined in a new National Counter Disinformation Strategy.

The report, published on Thursday, finds that disinformation has a "corrosive inflation" on everything from trust in public health to democratic institutions, but warns that "eradication" of misinformation is not the goal as the problem will "persist and evolve".