World News Day 2026: Time to fight
World News Day 2026 takes place on 28 September, with 1,000+ newsrooms in 100+ countries participating. Reliable information is essential ...
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Tag: fake news
He’s found 15 000+ fake AI news sites
AI news sites are booming: More than 15 000 French GenAI news sites have been identified, with thousands more worldwide. ...
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Kenya’s Court of Appeal upholds cybercrime law but strikes down ‘fake news’ offences
On 6 March 2026, the Court of Appeal in Nairobi (Court) issued a landmark decision on the Computer Misuse and ...
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Facebook promotes rubbish because it doesn’t understand indigenous languages
Facebook’s algorithms do not understand most South African languages. As a result, content creators can post fake news and be ...
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World News Day: Global lessons from a press in peril
Every year of my journalistic career of nearly half a century, I have known only a free and independent press ...
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Perfect storm of tech bros, foreign interference and disinformation
Media freedom has long been essential to healthy democracy. It is the oxygen that fuels informed debate, exposes corruption and ...
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