Tag: data
Blog post: How we’re using artificial intelligence to scale up global fact-checking
Andrew Dudfield from UK fact-checking charity Full Fact explains how a team of fact-checking organisations is developing artificial intelligence tools to increase the speed and impact of fact-checking.
No evidence that 40% of medicines sold in Africa are fake
Claim
“40% of the medicines sold in Africa are fake.”
Source: A Twitter user (21 January 2020)
Verdict
This statistic is often attributed to the WHO. But the agency says while it did find that 42% of the medicines reported to it between 2013 and 2017 were fake, this data does not represent the situation in Africa.
Blog post: ANALYSIS: Poor data on suicide leaves Kenya groping in the dark for answers
Nairobi’s water supply: 2 claims about losses & high prices in slums evaluated

Is nearly half of capital city’s water lost and do inhabitants of slums pay much more for water than those in swanky apartments? We judged two of governor Mike Sonko’s claims about Nairobi’s water supply
Do just 700,000 public workers gobble up half of Kenya’s taxes, as Ruto said?

Kenya’s civil servant pay levels continue to attract national debate. Is the situation as bad as the deputy president recently depicted?
The presidential debate that wasn’t: Did Kenya’s Odinga get his facts straight?

Despite being much-anticipated, Kenya’s presidential frontrunners kept the country guessing whether they would pitch for a debate broadcast live . We examined 3 claims by the main candidate who did.
Are 30 of Nigeria’s 36 states behind on pension payouts?

For decades, the plight of retired people in Nigeria has been dire. Pensioners have died while queueing for their cheques while many don’t receive them at all. Are most of Nigeria’s states presently indebted to retirees, as a union official said?