
‘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.
South Africa-based Africa Check researcher Kirsten Cosser is more convinced of the value of fact-checking than ever.
Misinformation knows no borders and Africa Check often responds to similar false claims from country to country.
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...
Africa Check’s editors in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa look back on a decade-long effort to improve voters’ decisions.
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....
The idea was discussed in a Paris coffee shop. Ten years later, Africa Check has reached and succeeded those ambitions.
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....
South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
The two-day Africa Facts summit, to be held in Nairobi in early November, will bring together fact-checking organisations and experts from a...
Africa Check’s Fact Ambassador programme has boosted our multi-tentacular approach to fighting false information online and offline.
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