‘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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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.
Breaking the cycle of online sexual abuse: Why fact-checkers won’t touch leaked intimate images and why you shouldn't either
Verifying intimate photos or videos of public figures is problematic for a number of reasons. Here’s why and what you can do instead.
PRESS RELEASE: 2023 African Fact-Checking Awards now open for entries
Entries for the 2023 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers.
‘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 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.
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The changing face of Covid misinformation in South Africa: 2020 to 2022 in review
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
