Type of actor
Initiative
Implementing
organization/actor
URL
Legal/human rights
Campaigns against
disinformation and hate on
social networks
Internet Without Borders
https://internetwithoutborders.org/category/
campagne/
Legal/human rights
Lawyers Hub Kenya: Fact
checking
Lawyers Hub Kenya
https://lawyershub.org/
Legal/human rights
Freedom of Expression
Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/
freedom-of-expression/
Legal/human rights
Section 27
Section 27
section27.org.za
Media
AFP Fact Check
AFP News Agency
https://factcheck.afp.com/
Media
BBC Reality Check
BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check
Media
Benin Stop Fake News
Coordinated by journalists;
supported by US Embassy in
Benin
https://beninstopfake.news/
Media
Chasseurs de Fake News
Les bénévoles de l’EMI
https://www.facebook.com/BenevoleEmi
Media
CongoCheck
SBL Initiative des Factcheckers
du Congo (IFC)
https://congocheck.net/a-propos/
Media
Covid-19 misinformation hub
BBC News Africa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idte7e3acde-9cdf-4b53-b469-ef6e87a66411
Media
CrossCheck Nigeria
Nigerian newsrooms
Website not active; social media accounts
outdated
Media
Desinfox Africa
CFI Media Development
https://cfi.fr/en/project/desinfox-africa
Media
Dubawa
Premium Times Center for
Investigative Journalism
(PTCIJ)
https://t.co/tbAjVegL78?amp=1
Media
Fact Check Ghana
Media Foundation for West
Africa
https://www.fact-checkghana.com/
Media
FasoCheck
FasoCheck
https://fasocheck.org/
Media
IvoireCheck
Réseau des Professionnels de
la Presse en Ligne de Côte
d’Ivoire (REPPRELCI)
https://www.ivoirecheck.com/
Media
Know News
Media Monitoring Africa
https://chrome.google.com/
webstore/detail/know-news/
bmlfbcipfpdohbhhlkibdiacikbpaofm?hl=en
Media
Les Observateurs de France
24
France 24
https://observers.france24.com/fr/
Media
Les Verificateurs
Radiodiffusion Télévision
Ivoirienne (RTI)
https://www.lesverificateurs.info/
Media
MaliCheck
Le Jalon
https://lejalon.com/
Media
National campaigns to tackle
misinformation and fake news
Article 19
https://www.article19.org/what-we-do/
Media
NigerFocus
NigerFocus
http://www.nigerfocus.com/
Media
RJDH (Réseau des
Journalistes pour les Droits
de l’Homme en Centrafrique)
RJDH
https://www.rjdhrca.org/category/actualites/
fact-checking/
Media
RoveR
Media Monitoring Africa
https://www.rover.directory/privacy
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