NMC WELCOMES FORMATION OF GHANA FACT-CHECKING COALITION

On Friday, November 8, 2024, the Media Foundation for West Africa, Dubawa, FactSpace West
Africa and other civil society organisations working on information integrity announced the
formation of the Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition “to mitigate the menacing threat
misinformation and disinformation pose to the country’s peace, stability and democratic
consolidation.”
The National Media Commission welcomed the initiative and congratulated all the organisations
involved in the ground-breaking Coalition. It is one of the most crucial interventions needed to
protect our nation’s information space in the last lap to the elections.
A letter signed by George Sarpong, Executive Secretary, stated that the deluge of malign
information operations observed from both internal and external sources in the past couple of
weeks give cause for concern.
“By choosing to leverage their collective experience, expertise, credibility and resources, the
Coalition has enhanced Ghana’s capacity to address these threats and offered hope for the
containment of disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).
“The Commission encourages all stakeholders working to promote peaceful elections to
cooperate with the Coalition.
“The National Media Commission hopes to support the Coalition by making available to them
our Ghana Media Watch App, a cutting-edge technology for monitoring disinformation planned
to be launched on Thursday, November 14, 2024,” the letter concluded.