Hacker News
- Why it is more dangerous to be a farmer than a policeman in South Africa [pdf] https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Why-it-is-more-dangerous-to-be-a-farmer-than-a-policeman-in-SA-Africa-Check.pdf 26 comments
- Website advertising fully funded scholarships at university in Norway is just another scam https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/website-advertising-fully-funded-scholarships-university 9 comments worldnews
- New evidence of thriving ‘disinformation industry’ on Twitter is worrying as Kenya gears for elections in August 2022 https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/blog/new-evidence-thriving-disinformation-industry-twitter-worrying-kenya-gears 2 comments technology
- Found a well-researched and well-sourced African version of Politifact which checks news stories about the region (Founded in 2012 and has expanded rapidly) https://africacheck.org/ 6 comments geopolitics
Linking pages
- The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-023-02124-2 326 comments
- Building trust online by partnering with the International Fact Checking Network https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-trust-online-partnering-international-fact-checking-network/ 2 comments
- What Russian disinformation wants Africa to think about the war in Ukraine and more – EDMO https://edmo.eu/2023/11/29/what-russian-disinformation-wants-africa-to-think-about-the-war-in-ukraine-and-more/ 1 comment
- Data Detox Kit https://datadetoxkit.org/en/misinformation/botornot/ 0 comments
- An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers | by Code for Africa | Code For Africa | Medium https://medium.com/code-for-africa/an-open-letter-to-youtubes-ceo-from-the-world-s-fact-checkers-a4a734f1d76d 0 comments
- There’s a crack at the heart of Facebook’s advertising business - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934770/facebook-lgbt-ads-watch-policies 0 comments
- How We Determined Which Disinformation Publishers Profit From Google’s Ad Systems — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ads-misinformation-methodology 0 comments
- The 2023 Guide to Generative AI and Political Misinformation https://www.96layers.ai/p/the-2023-guide-to-generative-ai-and 0 comments