NuktaFakti: Why we will not stop fighting misinformation in Tanzania
By Daniel Mwingira For three years Nukta Africa had invested in fighting fake news to reduce misinformation and disinformation in Tanzania by publishing debunked stories as they happened. However, during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 we boosted our efforts by joining other fact checkers in Africa like Pesa Check and Africa Check. Instead of publishing debunked misinformation as normal news, we embarked on full time fact checking and started with misinformation about Covid-19. launched our fact checking initiative dubbed Nukta Fakti on 1st May 2020 with initial support from Internews under ...