The Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Gbenga Sesan has urged the Nigerian government to channel the energy directed at social media regulation to carrying out its main responsibilities. He said this while speaking a webinar organised by The International Centre for …

To commemorate its one year anniversary, The FactCheckHub held a verification masterclass. The masterclass titled, “How to identify and debunk misinformation,” took place on Zoom and Facebook on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.Here’s a recording of the session.

Nigeria’s former Minister of Education Dr Oby Ezekwesili says there’s a need to consider motivating purveyors of factual information through incentives to discourage the spread of fake news. Ezekwesili made the call during a webinar jointly organised by the International Centre …

Media experts take a look at the role of the media in combatting misinformation in the fake news era.