Ghana’s independent fact-checking platform, GhanaFact is a project of FactSpace West Africa working to tackle misinformation and disinformation on traditional and social media.

GhanaFact seeks to target and correct the spread of false or misleading claims or statements on social network and messaging platforms and in public discourse.

In a 2019 GhanaFact survey of 400 Ghanaians aimed at understanding the ecosystem of distrust and misinformation in Ghana, 69% of respondents indicated that they had encountered misinformation in the last one year.

The growing menace is gradually undermining trust in the Ghanaian media and the country’s burgeoning democracy.