The EU requires online platforms to counter "harmful misinformation" but no system is agreed to decide what is and is not "harmful". In 2024, three fact-checking organisations ran a trial of a new mod...
Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Peter Cunliffe-Jones is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Westminster, London, where he researches the consequences of false information. After a 25-year career at the AFP news agency in Europe, Africa and Asia, he founded Africa’s first non-partisan fact-checking organisation, Africa Check, in 2012 and in 2017 created the Africa Facts Network. As a member of the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), from 2015-2024, he co-wrote in 2016 the IFCN Code of Principles adopted today by more than 170 organisations and led the revision of the code in 2019-2020. He has also advised the Arab Fact-Checking Network (AFCN), platforms and regulators on information standards. His latest book, Fake News - What's the harm? Four Ideas for Fact-Checkers, Policymakers and Platforms on Countering the Consequences of False Information and Defending Free Speech, will be published by University of Westminster Press in June 2025.
Events IJF 2025
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...
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...
A billion citizens and 800 million sim cards in circulation. With 50% of the population connected to the Internet via the mobile network - also used for payments and money transfers - and the prospect...
