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Fact-checking in Kenya 2024: Education funding puzzle, foreign jobs, shifting headlines and political spin
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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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Dec 23, 2024 · 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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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 ...
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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 …
A year of fact-checking: Lessons learned as an Africa Check …
3 days ago · Neutrality bias is still bias. I joined Africa Check during a super-election year. With almost 20 African countries set to go to the polls, the need for election-focused fact-checking was clear.. As my editor warned, I was well and truly thrown into the deep end.
From election myths to health misinformation: The top 5 claims …
Dec 20, 2024 · #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 social media ahead of the country ...
No evidence for claim that Kenyan president Ruto was rushed …
Dec 20, 2024 · 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 flag and falsely claiming Ruto had died.
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Nov 18, 2024 · 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.
PRESS RELEASE: 50 fact-checking organisations in Africa sign pact …
Oct 30, 2024 · 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.