The changing face of Covid misinformation in South Africa: 2020 to 2022 in review
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
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
SA’s latest quarterly crime statistics reveal where and how these crimes happen, but we must understand the data and trends in context.
Africa Check’s editors in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa look back on a decade-long effort to improve voters’ decisions.
When I first proposed the idea of Africa Check, I was told it would be a fool’s errand to set up a fact-checking operation on the continent....
The idea was discussed in a Paris coffee shop. Ten years later, Africa Check has reached and succeeded those ambitions.
A slew of surveys on who is likely to win in Nigeria’s 2023 elections have appeared since campaigning officially kicked off.
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