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Report from the DRC – The difficulty of accessing reliable information: how disinformation and media censorship have made communities more vulnerable to insecurity

Report from the DRC – The difficulty of accessing reliable information: how disinformation and media censorship have made communities more vulnerable to insecurity

by | Mar 19, 2025 | Balobaki Check, Balobaki Stories, Non classé, Security and defence

By Ange Kasongo Adihe (Balobaki Check, RDC) et Valdez Onanina (Africa Check, Afrique francophone) – Translated by Helen Vesperini  This text is the first in a series of articles illustrating the impact of disinformation through concrete, factual examples, while...
Fact-checking – Meta: if Mark Zuckerberg extends his decision to Africa, it would contribute to an information disorder where access to information is limited in some countries

Fact-checking – Meta: if Mark Zuckerberg extends his decision to Africa, it would contribute to an information disorder where access to information is limited in some countries

by | Jan 11, 2025 | Balobaki Check, Balobaki Stories, Our news

It would be worrying if Meta were to stop collaborating with external fact-checkers in countries where access to information is limited. In March 2020, a Congolese mother was arrested by the authorities after her three children died consecutively, victims of an...