According to the 2025 Eurobarometer survey, two-thirds of respondents believe they were exposed to disinformation or fake news within just one week. While 61% feel confident they can spot misleading content, nearly one in three admit they are not. In a world flooded with fake videos, manipulated images, and misleading narratives, DW project Fact Attack is helping youth audience in Romania and Hungary to spot the difference. Love being part of this project!

Automated moderation reads Nigerian Pidgin as English. So a Pidgin post with a false claim about polling units goes through a filter that thinks it understood the thing, finds nothing wrong, and passes it on. Nobody checks it after that. Yoruba has a version of the same problem, because the diacritics carrying its tone usually get stripped before anything reads the text. Closing the Indigenous-Language Detection Gap, our new policy brief, goes to the people who can fix this: Meta, Google, TikTok and X, plus NCC, NITDA and NDPC. Four asks of the platforms. Surge review capacity in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin and Kanuri through the election window, sized against real Nigerian user numbers rather than a global multilingual capability nobody has tested on Nigerian content. Content Credentials on political advertising, in whatever language it runs. A fast review route for accredited Nigerian fact-checkers, working from a standard evidence template. Weekly reporting on what is being enforced here. Two for the regulators. NCC and NITDA to issue an election-period code of practice using mandates they already hold. NDPC to check whether people posting in Nigerian languages get the same privacy notices, appeal routes and redress as people posting in English. None of this asks a platform to disclose anything proprietary. There is a business argument as well. DataReportal put Facebook at roughly 38 million Nigerian users in late 2025, with TikTok ad reach up 43.4% year on year. Nigerian users aged 16 and over are on an average of seven platforms a month, up from five in 2024. When something goes visibly wrong on one platform, people move. This brief was produced by Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative and FactCheckAfrica, supported by the Digital Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa Fund and Support Network and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. #ContentModeration #InformationIntegrity

Ukrainian journalists are a constant source of inspiration. Their commitment to keeping communities informed, under extraordinary pressure, is a reminder of what journalism makes possible. We’re so proud at Fathm to be working with OpenAI, WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers and the Association of Independent Regional Publishers of Ukraine on this programme to support independent journalism in Ukraine. We’re looking forward to supporting their work and learning from the experience and creativity they bring to it.

🔎 Reach is becoming an organisational capability. Producing journalism is only half the battle - media groups must also have the talent, tech, and audience expertise to distribute it across fragmented channels. Africa is home to more than 50 countries, each with its own media landscape, languages, and regulatory environment, meaning no single study can capture the full diversity of the continent’s independent digital media sector at once. Organisations have to define their own measure of success, or lack thereof. 💡 Here's what our panellists shared on defining success in a fragile, creator-driven media landscape. SembraMedia leads Project Oasis, with support from the Google News Initiative and Code For Africa (CfA) as a research partner in Africa. 👉🏾 Read the full report for more insights: https://cfa.fyi/iKbUQB2   Marie Ella Kouakou | Wale Lawal | Qaanitah Hunter

Behind the Algorithm: How GhanaMedia.net Engineered a Digital News Revolution ACCRA, GHANA — The blueprint for digital media success in Africa is officially being rewritten, and traditional media houses are scrambling to keep up. For over a decade, the recipe for dominant web traffic in the Ghanaian ecosystem was simple: establish a legacy brand name, build a massive desktop homepage, and wait for the search queries to roll in. But while the old guard rested on its laurels, a silent, hyper-optimized powerhouse was quietly engineering the future of digital journalism right under their noses....

We're very close to completing our annual update of all the state and public media in 170 countries and the latest regional analyses are now out. Here is our Asia analysis. European study coming up in about two weeks and the 2026 global overview, as usual, launched in October. #statemediamonitor #statemedia #publicmedia #government #research #governance

As part of our 2026 State Media Monitor update, we published State and Public Media in Asia where we mapped 111 active state-linked media organisations across 26 Asian jurisdictions. The Asia database contains 125 records in total, including organisations now recorded as closed, merged, inactive or removed from the active scope. A preview: "The most important conclusion from the 2026 Asian cycle is that the sharp decline in the State-Controlled count does not represent a comparable decline in political control." Read more in our analysis below! https://lnkd.in/dDPkhKQt

🗣️ What happens when local journalism goes beyond borders? 🇷🇴With support from Journalismfund Europe’s Pluralistic Media for Democracy (PM4D) programme, uh.ro is reimagining local media for the Hungarian-speaking community in Romania’s Harghita County. Through “Voices Beyond Borders”, the newsroom produced multimedia stories on young people, faith and rural communities, using bilingual storytelling and platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and newsletters to reach new audiences. The result? More diverse voices, stronger community connections and new ways of doing local journalism. 🌱 Read more about this project: https://bit.ly/4gQPSr4 #PM4D #LocalJournalism #MediaPluralism #LocalMedia

📰✨ Médiapiac.com has featured the new paper by Peter Kreko PhD. (Political Capital, HDMO Hungarian Hub) and Ágnes Urbán (Mertek Media Monitor, HDMO Hungarian Hub) on the renewal of public service media in Hungary. 🔎 The key message: countering disinformation requires more than fact-checking: 🛡️ editorial independence ✅ credibility 🤝 long-term trust-building 🧠 media literacy 📱 reaching younger audiences 👉 The article is available in Hungarian: https://lnkd.in/dJEvPZrm

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