fact-checking

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...

With movement restrictions in place due to Covid-19, unverified information still found a way of travelling, whether among family, colleague...

Andrew Dudfield from UK fact-checking charity Full Fact explains how a team of fact-checking organisations is developing artificial intellig...

In this briefing series, Full Fact’s Research Team and partners at Africa Check and Chequeado, draw on the latest academic evidence to expla...

Social media can be an open highway for false information. Dancan Bwire and Grace Gichuhi, researchers from our Nairobi office, look back on...

Africa Check’s Kenya deputy editor tackled health misinformation all through 2019. Here’s what he took away.

Fact-checkers need to move from ‘publish and pray’ to ‘publish and act’

Does being single kill faster than obesity? Can you sue over an opinion poll? Just how much does Nigeria owe China? Some claims push back at...

Africa Check’s deputy editor in Kenya conducted three training sessions and participated in eight panels on fact-checking across East Africa...

When false news spreads on Facebook, people and even countries can face real harm. The network’s new fact-checking programme now has Africa ...

While newsrooms do not have consensus on what exactly fact-checking journalism entails, they have no doubt it can increase accountability in...