This report on the types and effects of changes made to the legal and regulatory framework for media and information in sub-Saharan Africa between 2016 and 2020, is one of four reports to be published by University of Westminster Press in 2021 and 2022. The series explores on the one hand, the types, drivers and effects of misinformation in sub-Saharan Africa today, and, on the other, three approaches to reducing associated harm: (i) fact-checking, (ii) media or misinformation literacy and (iii) changes to the legal and regulatory framework for media and information. The four reports all draw, in part, on a study of more than 1,200 examples of false or misleading information identified as circulating on the continent by one or more of the 14 fact-checking organisations that published fact-checks regularly across Africa between 1 July and 31 December 2019.
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