Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa – Africa Center
A growing trend of domestic political actors deploying targeted disinformation schemes requires expanded fact-checking capacity in Africa.
Source: africacenter.org
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Facebook 'lets vigilantes in Ethiopia incite ethnic killing' | Facebook
Social media giant accused of inaction after users post ‘horrifying and hateful content’
Source: theguardian.com
FB Removes Misinforming Content In New Measures For, And Ahead Of Ethiopia's General Elections – CIO East Africa
Facebook has outlined its election integrity measures ahead of Ethiopia’s June 21st General Elections to curb the spread of untrue information
Source: cio.co.ke
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 ...
Source: internews.org