COMMENT: How South Africa’s top brass continue to inflate government housing figures and why it matters
Government officials maintain that over 4 million houses have been provided to the poor. We explain why this claim is misleading.
Government officials maintain that over 4 million houses have been provided to the poor. We explain why this claim is misleading.
Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other forms of information deception.
In this guide, we’ve taken it back to basics to explain how to identify images and videos where not everything is as it appears to be.
South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.
Suggested changes to the National Health Act have kicked up a public storm. Analysts say the way they have been put together doesn’t help.
A new study argues for an expanded definition of media literacy.
Since 2019, Africa Check has worked with Google.org and three fact-checking partners to build artificial intelligence tools that identify pa
Andrew Dudfield from UK fact-checking charity Full Fact explains how a team of fact-checking organisations is developing artificial intellig
Video can be easily manipulated, misrepresented and created. This is a guide to spotting three types of misleading videos.
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