MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION DISORDER IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH EDITED BY HERMAN WASSERMAN This report is the outcome of a project led by Herman Wasserman (University of Cape Town) and funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada. The research was conducted collaboratively, with regional reports provided by local teams from Research ICT Africa (covering subSaharan Africa), InternetLab (covering Latin America and the Caribbean), LIRNEasia (covering Asia) and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (covering the Middle East and North Africa). Physical Address: Centre for Film and Media Studies University of Cape Town Private Bag X1 Rondebosch, 7700 Website: www.cfms.uct.ac.za Email: herman.wasserman@uct.ac.za Tel: +27 21 650 3189 Copy-editing: Simone Chiara van der Merwe Design: Gaelen Pinnock | polygram.co.za Authors: Azamat Ababakirov Ahmed Ashour Ramathi Bandaranayake Ruwanka de Silva Dominique Diouf Helani Galpaya Naila Govan-Vassen Hanani Hlomani Gayashi Jayasinghe Saja Mortada Aziza Nofal Araba Sey Kristophina Shilongo Jonas C. L. Valente With collaboration and assistance by: Adam Armstrong Francisco Brito Cruz Daniel Macedo Heloisa Massaro Fadiyah Rabin This report is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0