Fact-checking, the weapon that fights infox
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Facebook will extend its fight against “fake news” in Africa to around ten national languages, including Wolof.
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By: Diara Ndiaye Follow
1 min
Focus on Fake news, false information, infox or "alternative facts" ... multiple names to mean the same thing: the dissemination of false information intended to manipulate public opinion.
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On the web, and in particular on social networks, these infox abound.
There are more than 4.5 billion Internet users in the world, 42 million messages are exchanged on Whatsapp in one minute, 500,000 comments under a Facebook post always in 60 seconds!
How not to take advantage of this mass of content that circulates quickly, to place false, truncated, rigged content that becomes too quickly viral?
Since the appearance of the Covid, disinformation around health in particular and conspiracy theories of all kinds have exploded.
How do specialist journalists try to flush out and verify on a daily basis this misleading information flow which can have a harmful or even dangerous impact on our health or our society?
How to understand what is infox and especially how to spot it?
Direction Niamey, Dakar, Bamako and Abidjan.
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