May 7, 2021 | Disinformation
The objective limits of fact-checking by Samba Dialimpa Badji In August 2009, a Senegalese activist, popular on social networks, shared a photomontage on Twitter and Facebook comparing the costs of two sports facilities – one in Kigali, Rwanda (Kigali Arena) and the...
May 1, 2021 | Disinformation
by Juliet Nanfuka The proliferation of fake news and misinformation has deepened concerns as it has created opportunities to further shrink the functions of a pluralistic and independent African press landscape as envisioned by the Windhoek Declaration. Increasingly,...
Apr 23, 2021 | Disinformation
By Fernando Gonçalves Mozambique has largely been seen as one of the few countries in Africa that had made a break with the continent’s checkered past, having embraced a multiparty system of democracy anchored on the values of freedom and liberty. In 1990, the...