PRESS RELEASE: 2023 African Fact-Checking Awards now open for entries
Entries for the 2023 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers.
Entries for the 2023 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers.
As nearly a dozen countries prepare to hold presidential elections, the spread of disinformation is inflaming Africa's political landscape.
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.
Misinformation knows no borders and Africa Check often responds to similar false claims from country to country.
As the continent’s first independent fact-checking organisation marks its first decade, those who have been at the helm look back on the jou
Africa Check’s editors in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa look back on a decade-long effort to improve voters’ decisions.
From two desks in a university department to four African country offices and a respected presence in a global network of fact-checkers, thi
A grainy photo claims to show Vladimir Putin training Mozambique’s Samora Machel and Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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