‘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.
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Media literacy helps voters make informed choices during elections
Africa Check is working to help Africans critically interrogate the information they engage with.
AfricaCheck@10: The challenges of working across Africa
Misinformation knows no borders and Africa Check often responds to similar false claims from country to country.
AfricaCheck@10: Current and past editors reflect on a steady mission, but with vastly expanded horizons
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
#10YearsOfFacts: Ten lessons we’ve learned fact-checking elections in African countries
Africa Check’s editors in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa look back on a decade-long effort to improve voters’ decisions.
AfricaCheck@10: Fact-checking – a learning curve that just keeps rising
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....
AfricaCheck@10: Over coffee, the seed of an African fact-checking network
The idea was discussed in a Paris coffee shop. Ten years later, Africa Check has reached and succeeded those ambitions.
‘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....
The fact-checker’s guide to great holiday reads
Here’s how to make better sense of the world, on the beach. We share our top picks of books and podcasts.
The good, the bad and the ugly: we rate South African government websites
South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.
Africa Check publishes first research briefs in joint programme with Full Fact and Chequeado
What fact-checking format helps people best understand a topic? How do politicians respond to fact-checking? How can we reach even more audi...