Raising informed media consumers starts at school
Africa Check has created fact-checking resources for teachers that directly target harmful information.
Africa Check has created fact-checking resources for teachers that directly target harmful information.
Africa Check is working to help Africans critically interrogate the information they engage with.
Media literacy programmes show great promise as an effective way to fight misinformation – before it spreads.
To curb Covid-19 vaccine misinformation in Nigeria and Senegal, Africa Check has launched innovative local language radio shows.
The broad-based coalition aims to help voters critically engage with information and make informed decisions in the voting booth.
As nearly a dozen countries prepare to hold presidential elections, the spread of disinformation is inflaming Africa's political landscape.
South Africa-based Africa Check researcher Kirsten Cosser is more convinced of the value of fact-checking than ever.
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Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
Watchdogs, watch yourselves! Why South African media should be wary when communicating pseudoscientific predictions to their audiences.
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