TODAY, the Barrhead News joins forces with local and regional newspapers across the UK to fight fake news.

Reporters consistently work to ensure the stories published in your local newspapers are accurate and informative, entertaining and essential. These are the serious underpinnings of good journalism.

Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is credited with saying, "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself". But there is no proof he actually said that, even if it was the foundation of Nazi lies and racism.

It is attributed to him in a publication of the US Congress's anti-Communist House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1946.

That's the sort of checks your local reporters carry out every day to ensure you know what is happening in your community.

And when social media allows the near instant sharing of facts and comments around the world, it's vital the information is correct and corrected promptly as more accurate details comes to light.

Fake news outlets like those abroad generating entirely false stories about real people or situations or elections are something best fought by you, our readers.

When you click and read our stories, or buy our paper or buy advertising for print or online, you support strong, fair and accurate journalism.

That's what helps our readers celebrate their community, make decisions about politics, campaign for improving services and so much more.

As well as signing up to the comprehensive Editors' Code of Practice, our reporters are trained by the National Council for the Training of Journalists and subject to regulation by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

Fake news is not.

Henry Ainslie, group editor of Clyde Weekly Press, which publishes the Barrhead News, said: "Local journalism is the lifeblood of so many communities, holding those in authority to account and ensuring readers know everything that is going on where they live.

"Now more than ever it is imperative the highest principles of reporting are maintained, and that's why we support the #FightingFakeNews campaign."