The National Media Commission (NMC) is set to support the Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition with the Ghana Media Watch App.
The App is a cutting-edge technology for monitoring disinformation planned to be launched on Thursday, November 14, 2024.
George Sarpong, NMC Executive Secretary made this known in a statement signed and issued on Sunday November 2024.
“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,” he stated.
This follows thw 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.”
Sarpong 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,” he added.
The NMC Executive Secretary noted 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,” he said.
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