‘Who are you working for?’ What I learned in my first year as a fact-checker in Kenya
Tess Wandia joined Africa Check as a senior researcher in January 2022. Here’s what she learned – spoiler alert, it was no walk in the park....
Tess Wandia joined Africa Check as a senior researcher in January 2022. Here’s what she learned – spoiler alert, it was no walk in the park....
South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.
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
Africa Check’s editors in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa look back on a decade-long effort to improve voters’ decisions.
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