‘Careful saying that around her!’ Our researcher tells of her first year at Africa Check
South Africa-based Africa Check researcher Kirsten Cosser is more convinced of the value of fact-checking than ever.
South Africa-based Africa Check researcher Kirsten Cosser is more convinced of the value of fact-checking than ever.
South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.
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.
Africa Check’s four-year partnership with the UN Democracy Fund aims to help the public be more critical of information.
We’ve launched a new programme to spread accurate information to a wider audience across our continent – welcome to our Fact Ambassadors!
Media reports claimed that a man challenged lions in the Kruger National Park to a fight , did this incident really happen?
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