As Meta announces end to U.S. fact-checking, program partners warn of a setback for accuracy online and potential global ...

There are fears online that the world could be facing another pandemic in 2025.  Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a ...

The many related technologies known as artificial intelligence, or AI, may have felt inescapable in 2024. Countless news ...

The Kenyan president keeps lamenting that he has a disinformation problem. But the trouble isn’t the headlines – it’s the ...

For example, in 2022, Africa Check debunked a claim about poisonous biscuits that supposedly caused the death of 45 people.

The Meta programme is a partnership between the platform and independent third-party fact-checkers certified by the nonpartisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). These fact-checkers identify ...

The Africa Check team has been hard at work investigating hundreds of claims over the last 12 months. Here are our most-read fact-checks for 2024, with tips to help you sort fact from fiction this ...

Following the arrest and detention of Biafra separatist Simon Ekpa in Finland, a claim circulated on Facebook that the Finnish authorities did not arrest Ekpa, but took him away to protect him from ...

IN SHORT: A fake “executive order” claimed Kenyan president William Ruto had relocated the country’s capital city from Nairobi to Nakuru. Such a move would be unmissable – it requires a change of law ...

IN SHORT: An image and audio posted on social media shows the commissioner of police in Nigeria’s Enugu state, Kanayo Uzuegbu, appearing to announce "new communication rules for WhatsApp chats and ...