Visiting Researcher & Co-Director Chevening African Media Freedom Fellowship, University of Westminster
I have been a Visiting Researcher at University of Westminster in London since 2019, researching types, drivers and effects of misinformation and the status and effects of policies intended to counter misinformation. At the same time, I am Co-Director of a course on media freedom in the UK and Africa, run in partnership with the UK's Chevening Foundation.
My professional background since 1990 has been is in journalism. In 2012, I devised and founded the fact-checking organisation Africa Check in a partnership with the Journalism Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and ran it until 2019.
Misinformation: how fact-checking journalism is evolving – and having a real impact on the world
Jan 11, 2024 03:36 am UTC| Life Insights & Views
Fake news loves a crisis. Its clear now that false information has played a role in recent events around the world from divisive elections to the COVID pandemic to the conflict roiling Israel and Gaza. It is important...
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