My top 3 for 2016: Activist 'facts', press freedom truths & a complex Clinton claim
Great fact-checks puncture myths with rigour, but also in a way that reshapes the public debate by focusing on the true scale of a particula
Great fact-checks puncture myths with rigour, but also in a way that reshapes the public debate by focusing on the true scale of a particula
It is definitely within the powers of a government to block cellphone users' access to a specific app, such as WhatsApp, and there are diffe
Senior researcher Kate Wilkinson is an Africa Check veteran, having joined the organisation in 2013. In this piece, she rounds up her top fa
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
When false news spreads on Facebook, people and even countries can face real harm. The network’s new fact-checking programme now has Africa ...
Dakar and Joburg were near the top of a Twitter post listing world cities with the worst air quality. But how is the air pollution of differ...
Today fact-checking organisations around the world are celebrating the inaugural International Fact-Checking Day. Africa Check marked the oc...
Our Kenya editor had to hit the ground sprinting a year ago. Now that Alphonce Shiundu managed to catch his breath, he distilled his experie
Twenty African fact-checking organisations are working together to share their experiences and collaborate to fight the spread of false info
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