Adam Online - How to combat fake news in Ghana’s media ahead of the 2024 election

Center for Journalism and Liberty director Dr. Courtney Radsch was quoted in an article on preventing the spread of fake news.

Dr. Courtney Radsch as said there is an urgent need to “cultivate systems, institutions, and norms that enable quality and useful information to flourish and address the interplay between the technological infrastructure in which information and media systems are embedded.”  

President Nana Akufo-Addo. The danger has nothing to do with the forced choice between the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Rather, it has to do with the deliberate manipulation of information by these two political parties to disenfranchise millions of voters and overturn their verdict at the poll.

Our world is presently caught in a vortex of information disorder created by a few self-serving individuals amplified by some innocent people to dictate narratives in their favour. Information manipulation is as old as science and as dangerous as cancer if it is not attended to in a timely manner. We can pretend we are not in danger and choose not to do anything about the situation, but this would come at a great cost to everyone and no one would be spared.

The Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center defined information disorder to mean the many “ways our digital environment is polluted with misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM).” For non-profit organisation, First Draft News, information disorder is a “collective term to capture the range of disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, rumours, myths, conspiracy theories, hyperpartisan content, propaganda and manipulated media that contribute to the spread of false or misleading information.”

Read full article here.