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Entries open for 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards

The 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards, the continent’s longest-running celebration of fact-checking journalism, is now open to journalists, student journalists, and professional fact-checkers. Now in its...

How to use Google Fact Check Explorer for crosschecking information

Google Fact Check Explorer is a simple tool that allows online users to verify information by providing fact-checked content from trusted sources especially credible...

Armour for the digital age: Three easy tools to help you verify information in 2025

By Kirsten Cosser If 2024 is remembered as the year of elections, 2025 may be the year of the aftermath. Misinformation thrives in times of...

Online tools to identify and counter misinformation on the internet

IN an era where misinformation proliferates online, the need for effective tools to identify and counter false information has become increasingly urgent. From fact-checking platforms...

Nine open source tools for analysing satellite images

SATELLITE imagery has become an invaluable resource for journalists, providing verifiable proof of events, especially in regions where access is limited due to censorship...

Misinformation: YouTube begins verification of videos by UK health workers

YOUTUBE has launched a verification system for United Kingdom-based doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to curb the spread of misinformation and fake medical...

FactCheckHub set to host masterclass to commemorate 1st anniversary

IN commemoration of its one year anniversary, The FactCheckHub is set to host a verification masterclass. The matersclass titled, "How to identify and debunk misinformation,”...

How to verify visuals using frames

Misinformation can come in the form of texts, audio, or visuals. These visuals could be an old video circulated as new or even doctored. As such...

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Photos do not show Hushpuppi after deportation to Nigeria

IMAGES showing a man in handcuffs being escorted by...

Akpabio is wrong; no Nigerian state is without working internet

THE President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has claimed...

Old video of people jostling for food resurfaces online

A video circulating on social media claims to show...

How myth of tax deductions through bank narrations spread in Nigerian markets

FOLLOWING the implementation of the new tax law in...

No record of ‘Chinonso Amadi’s’ arrest for scam in South Africa

A post claiming that a man named Chinonso Amadi,...

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Photos do not show Hushpuppi after deportation to Nigeria

IMAGES showing a man in handcuffs being escorted by...

Akpabio is wrong; no Nigerian state is without working internet

THE President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has claimed...

Old video of people jostling for food resurfaces online

A video circulating on social media claims to show...

How myth of tax deductions through bank narrations spread in Nigerian markets

FOLLOWING the implementation of the new tax law in...

No record of ‘Chinonso Amadi’s’ arrest for scam in South Africa

A post claiming that a man named Chinonso Amadi,...