Africa's fact-checking community shows its growing strength in collaboration, investigations - Poynter

"For over two years, a violent inter-ethnic and chieftaincy conflict has had Bawku in a chokehold. Hundreds have been killed and adverse effects on socio-economic development have impacted daily life in Bawku."

"A close to one-year-long open-source digital investigation of some social media pages, groups, and individual accounts shows an obvious weaponization of social media - WhatsApp, Facebook, and TikTok - in perpetuating the conflict."

"The similarity of our problems on the continent in relation to ineffective platform moderation, be it spreading of hate speech, doxxing and inciting people to violence became evident."

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