“Misinformation has a number of effects on the information industry generally,' the minister said at the Dubawa event.....
Misinformation is today a major threat to democratic governance and the development of a reliable media that can serve the purpose of a civil community, Ghana’s Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, warned Tuesday in Accra calling for an urgent response that can restore “confidence in public institutions and in our democracy.”
He welcomed the start of Dubawa in Ghana saying it comes at an opportune time considering the upcoming 2020 general elections. “So the stake is a bit higher in the 2020 elections. It is, therefore, heart-warming also at this time that Dubawa is being rolled out to combat this threat of misinformation within the space” Nkrumah remarked.
His views were reinforced by Josephine Nkrumah, the Chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education, who chaired the event, and who also noted “that the impact of technology, the insidious growth of fake news as a tool to destabilise and breed extremism cannot be dismissed with the phenomenal and pivotal social media as a tool in politics particularly during election campaigns.”
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