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Fighting the Covid-19 infodemic – five strategies for African fact-checkers
The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, still taking lives and livelihoods across the world. Recovery from the crisis has been slowed by a g...
BLOG: What we learned from fact-checking the Covid-19 infodemic on WhatsApp in Kenya
With movement restrictions in place due to Covid-19, unverified information still found a way of travelling, whether among family, colleague...
No full South African matric rewrite due to paper leaks, varsity acceptance unchanged
Facebook message claims that universities are no longer accepting current matric students due to leak of exam papers, we checked the claims.
Fact-checked: Kenya president’s 2020 state of the nation address
Kenya’s president reported on the state of the nation, nearly one and a half years since the last such address. We fact-checked his claims.
#EndSARS protests: Comparing Nigeria’s health and education spending to cost of lawmaker upkeep
A graphic circulating compared the national budget for healthcare and education to the cost of maintaining the national assembly.