Fact-checking Firms Partner to Tackle Africa’s Fake News Problem

AW Totally free Basis is a non-income organisation established by AfricaWeb, explained as a single of the most significant publishers in Africa working in Ghana (ghanaweb.com), Cameroon (camerounweb.com), Nigeria (mynigeria.com), Tanzania (tanzaniaweb.com) and Togo among other African international locations.

In accordance to a statement produced by the organisations the partnership seeks to leverage on AfricaWeb’s access of 4 million multilingual readers per month throughout 3 locations of Africa and its large community of multilingual journalists to validate, simple fact-verify and extensively publish confirmed info in various languages across Africa.

FactSpace West Africa and AfricaWeb platforms throughout West, Central and East Africa have confirmed that they will introduce freshly developed electronic features that would, among the other people, amount the precision of details which include statements by community officers, institutions etc.

Rabiu Alhassan, Director and Handling Editor of FactSpace West Africa, reported, “This is a fact-checking/publisher partnership built to address the age-long problem of debunks that have negligible on the internet attain.

“Fact-checks are usually known to hobble in the encounter of viral misinformation. But not any longer. This collaboration will guarantee that tens of millions of Africans on the internet get obtain to confirmed data whilst we assure purveyors of misinformation are held accountable – which speaks to our positioning as a next-era reality-checker.”

Between other activities, FactSpace West Africa and AW No cost Foundation would organise actuality-checking coaching for journalists, whistleblowers, CSOs and the common general public to produce their actuality-examining expertise.

Emmanuel Vitus Agbenonwossi, Govt Director of AW Cost-free Basis, included, “In sub-Saharan Africa, journalist and whistleblowers’ exposure to misinformation and disinformation, if remaining unaddressed, could even further undermine the precarious foothold of independent media on the continent.

“So, with this partnership, AW Totally free Basis strategies to investigate misinformation and disinformation in numerous African nations around the world through in-depth analysis, coverage briefs and to build the ability of 2500 journalists throughout all 5 regions of the continent to restore believe in in the media.”