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AI, journalism and fact-checking in Ghana; navigating the maze

fact-check June 5, 2024 7:45 am

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the news industry will transform newsroom practice, scale the work of media outlets, improve the efficiency of...

40 African journalists and researchers benefit from CJID, DUBAWA Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship

Africa February 29, 2024 12:58 am

The Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) and DUBAWA have commenced training for forty journalists and researchers across Africa. The 40 fellows will...

Fact-check: Did Ghana miss November 1 IMF timeline?

fact-check November 14, 2023 7:42 am

Government has been insistingq in the last few days that it had not missed a November 1 IMF timeline for the fulfillment of conditions to...

Fact Check- News broadcast claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and NATO recirculates

fact-check March 6, 2022 6:05 pm

BBC News did not air a segment claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A clip...

Samson’s Take: Checking and publishing fact – that’s basic journalism

fact-check February 13, 2022 10:16 am

I must sound like a broken record on this subject. But we must keep talking, educating and debating until we get rid of the...

Fact check: An ex-CIA agent did not confess to infecting Bob Marley with fatal cancer

Entertainment December 29, 2021 1:01 pm

The claim is several years old, but a 2019 post to the Instagram page Submit Conspiracy Theories recently gained renewed attention. The page is a place for followers...

Fact-check: Did the NPP promise to build a harbour in Cape Coast?

fact-check October 19, 2021 11:04 am

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said on a Cape Coast-based radio station, Eagle FM, that he never promised to build a harbour in the Central...

Fact-Check: Has President Akufo-Addo signed a Bill Gates coronavirus vaccine pact?

Coronavirus June 2, 2020 7:31 am

Social media commentary captured in a news publication here claims that Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has committed Ghana to a vaccine pact to receive...

Compulsory coronavirus vaccines in the UK, other rumours fact-checked

Coronavirus May 10, 2020 11:59 am

We’ve been fact-checking the most widely shared dubious coronavirus claims this week. There’s no mandatory vaccine law in UK First, we’ve looked at a widely shared...

Fact check: Govt accused of lying to Ghanaians, find out what it is

fact-check May 8, 2020 12:15 pm

On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the...