In a more and more polarized world with elections being the target of misinformation, fact-checkers have become part of the worldwide conversation around the battle against it. Their work is diminishe...
Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Peter Cunliffe-Jones is senior adviser to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and a senior visiting research fellow at the University of Westminster. In more than 25 years as a journalist, most of it for the AFP news agency, he reported on the wars in Bosnia and Croatia, the end of military rule in Nigeria and was AFP chief editor for Asia-Pacific for three years from 2003. In 2012, he founded Africa's leading independent fact-checking organisation, Africa Check, and ran it until May 2019. As senior adviser to the IFCN, he led the 2019 review of its Code of Principles, adopted by 80 fact-checking organisations worldwide. At University of Westminster, he is co-director of a new programme on media freedom and trust. He has written for numerous media. His book My Nigeria – Five decades of independence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).was called “a triumph” by Chinua Achebe. He was a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation from March 2016 to February 2019.
The rise of political fact-checking has brought important accountability journalism to countries around the world. But you don¹t have to work for a fact-checking site to hold politicians accountabl...
Fact-checking is growing around the world, with new sites starting in Italy, Germany, France, the U.K., Australia and South Africa. But as fact-checking grows, the websites are facing new challenges t...
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