On April 14, 2025, the Burkinabè platform for the verification of the Fasocheck facts denied a rumor widely shared on social networks, according to which the salaries of ministers and deputies were reduced by 30 %. This unfounded statement is just one example among hundreds of false information that ...
At a time when false information proliferate at a dazzling speed on social networks, especially in French-speaking Africa, the actors of the Fact-Checking are redoubling their efforts to restore the truth. Bilal Taïrou, Beninese journalist and chief coordinator of the African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA), shares with Fakt Afrique Son ...
The independent body in charge of elections in Cameroon has just launched an official Facebook page in order to combat disinformation linked to the electoral process. In Cameroon, the fight against disinformation now mobilizes public institutions as well as parapublic organizations and civil society ....
