The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results. In the following two episodes, more stories of ‘park life’ are revealed.
But his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa – a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives – told BBC Radio 4 that he was a “softie”. Shorenstein Center Co-Sponsors “Defending Digital Democracy” Project to Fight Cyber Attacks and Protect Integrity of Elections. The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School launched a new, bipartisan initiative this week called the “Defending Digital Democracy” Project. The project is co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Institute of Politics. Read more about this initiative in The Washington Post.
When you consider that every single story coming out of Africa depends on a stringer who is stuck out somewhere in say, the deepest Delta region and telling us this and that is what is happening. Fake news came to the fore during the 2016 US election and the Brexit referendum in the UK earlier that year. Now social platforms like Facebook are working to combat the growing problem. However, it’s not just the caravanners who feature in the series. A new three-part observational documentary series, from BBC Northern Ireland, Ulster By The Sea, explores caravanning life on the north, east and west coasts of Ulster and meets the people who love to escape to their ‘home from home’ by the seaside. The name local marketing automation is a reference to BBC Far East, the BBC’s Asian service.
Vicky Ntetema is the bureau chief for the BBC in Tanzania. While investigating the story, Ntetema’s own life was threatened, and she went into hiding. NPR’s Tony Cox caught up with her after the reporter fled to Kenya.
Of course hunger has not arrived unannounced, the state of the planet and the effects of global warming have been playing havoc with people’s crops all over southern Africa. The relationship between peacekeepers and Africa has been fraught with accusations of mineral theft and more seriously the sexual abuse of women and children by the international UN forces, but the security situation without them does not bear contemplation. A UN Secretary General – Swedish statesman Dag Hammarskjold – lost his life in a plane crash in the Zambian town of Ndola in 1961 on his way to peace talks in the Congolese breakaway province of Katanga. Anti-government demonstrations in Harare last week saw water-cannon and yet more tear gas as the government blamed unknown “foreign elements” for trying to incite rebellion.
A week out from Kenya’s highly-anticipated August 8 election, increasingly fake news reports are circulating on social media platforms in the country. “Politicians will still find a way to push for people to campaign for them via social media, and that’s when we will see a spike in more fake news.” He says there is a lot of fake news being disseminated on “dark” social media platforms. There is no way of gauging just how many people shared the fake CNN report but it has been widely shared on social platforms. After CNN was made aware of the fake report, it debunked it in a tweet.
Spreading fake news becomes standard practice for governments across the world, from The Washington Post. Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. I like Ugandans and I think they are fun people, I think they are extremely bright people.
