KEY POINTS
  • The World Health Organization hosted a meeting at Facebook with some of the largest tech companies to discuss how to tamp down on misinformation about the coronavirus. 
  • About a dozen tech companies attended, including Google, Amazon and YouTube. 
  • The group is planning to meet every few months. 
A man wearing a protective mask looks on as he walks in front of a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong (not pictured) at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on January 23, 2020.

At Facebook on Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a daylong meeting with some of the largest tech leaders, including Amazon and Google, to discuss setting aside their differences to work together on solutions to the coronavirus outbreak.

The meeting was organized by WHO and hosted at Facebook's Menlo Park campus, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.