From Sierra Leone to The Gambia, Dubawa, West Africa’s leading fact-checking initiative of the PTCIJ, trained a total of 65 journalists and...
He said for democracy to grow, governments need a critical engagement with citizens for which the media represented that crucial interface “to decipher the information coming from the grassroots and capture public concerns” but worried that if information flow was tainted by falsehood or inaccuracies, not only is the credibility of the media dented but the goal of governance is compromised.
“This is why the government of Gambia welcomes Dubawa and pledges to work with you to enhance the promotion of informed choices among our citizens” said the minister, who remarked that the recent passage of the Freedom of Information law in The Gambia was, in part, the governments own good faith gesture that would help strengthen the fact-checking mechanism in the country.
The fact-checking training in The Gambia was a collaboration between the PTCIJ and the Gambian Press Union [GPU] which Dapo Olorunyomi, executive director of the PTCIJ, described as “a substantive and timely move ahead of the presidential elections which is a typical and fecund field for misinformation and disinformation to spread,” adding that the challenge of the “crisis of information is real and consequential because it has been demonstrated to negatively affect electoral integrity, public...
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