#KeepTheFactsGoing Episode 3: Help break the cycle – verifying evidence

Join Africa Check on a fact-checking journey with its #KeepTheFactsGoing series! Each week we’ll show you how to get your facts in order before you share something online - in English and isiZulu.

September 1, 2021
Africa Check Less than a minute
Episode 3 gives you all the fact-checking tips you need before sharing that viral WhatsApp message.
This episode aims to encourage WhatsApp users to invest their time in fact-finding such as checking the relevant sources and authors regarding information they have received, before passing it on to the next person.
Also see: #KeepTheFactsGoing Episode 2: Are you complicit in spreading misinformation?

This content was created by Africa Check, a non-partisan fact-checking organisation. View the original content here.

 

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September 1, 2021
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