Deadline: July 22, 2020
Entries for the seventh annual African Fact-Checking Awards are now open. This is the only awards programme that honours journalism by Africa-based media in the expanding field of fact-checking.
Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered a flood of dangerous false information. The World Health Organization says the outbreak has been accompanied by the so-called infodemic: “an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”.