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Fact-checking in Kenya 2024: Education funding puzzle, foreign jobs, shifting headlines and political spin
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2024年12月23日 · For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially.
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In 2020, we kicked off #KeepTheFactsGoing, a media literacy campaign in six languages.Each week we send out a WhatsApp voice note that brings fact-checking skills to our audience and debunks common health myths.
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Africa Check is a non-profit organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. We depend on donations to bring you quality, fact-based information and keep public figures accountable. Africa needed an organisation dedicated to holding public figures ...
How we fact-check - Africa Check
Africa Check is a nonpartisan organisation committed to promoting accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. To do this effectively, we follow the best practices in fact-checking, recognised by the world’s leading nonpartisan fact-checking organisations. We …
No evidence for claim that Kenyan president Ruto was rushed …
2024年12月20日 · The context. False rumours about the health of public figures are common. Africa Check has debunked similar false claims about the health of other well-known Kenyans, such as Raila Odinga, Francis Atwoli, Wafula Chebukati, and Kanze Dena.. In November, a university student was charged in court for sharing images of a casket draped in the Kenyan …
From election myths to health misinformation: The top 5 claims …
2024年12月20日 · #1 Elections: Where did my non-vote go? Of all the election-related claims we fact-checked in 2024 (and there were many!), the most read was an old myth that resurfaces every poll cycle in South Africa. The claim is that the vote of anyone who doesn’t vote is “automatically” assigned to the ruling party. Despite being over a decade old, it went viral on …
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2024年11月18日 · For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially.
Fact-checking research - Africa Check
We publish independent fact-checking research and evaluations to increase the understanding of the impact of fact-checking, promote fact-checking research in Africa, and develop evidence-based approaches in the field.
PRESS RELEASE: 50 fact-checking organisations in Africa sign pact …
2024年10月30日 · PRESS RELEASE: 50 fact-checking organisations in Africa sign pact on information integrity. The declaration highlighted politically sensitive environments, vulnerable and offline communities, linguistic diversity, public distrust of the media and resource challenges as some of the areas of concern for African fact-checkers.