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African Elections 2025

Disinformation Index Report for West Africa 2025 – Abridged Version

Disinformation is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats to democratic stability and governance in West…

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Disinformation Index Report for West Africa 2025 – Abridged Version

2025 · African Elections
African Elections 2025

Report on Review of Ghana’s Legal Framework for Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation

This report is an attempt to address a gap in the solution options for addressing disinformation in Ghana…

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Report on Review of Ghana’s Legal Framework for Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation

2025 · African Elections
African Elections 2025

2024 Annual Report

This report highlights our projects, innovations, achievements and challenges in the year 2024. It outlines how progressive the…

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2024 Annual Report

2025 · African Elections
African Elections 2024

Understanding the Economics of Disinformation on Ghana’s Democracy

Discussions centered around disinformation and misinformation have been topical in recent times, particularly as a result of the…

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Understanding the Economics of Disinformation on Ghana’s Democracy

2024 · African Elections
Journalism 2024

Navigating the Digital Landscape: Charting the Course of Digital Citizenship in Ghana

From a civic tech perspective, this document focuses on how Ghanaians are harnessing the power of the digital…

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Navigating the Digital Landscape: Charting the Course of Digital Citizenship in Ghana

2024 · Journalism
Journalism 2023

2nd Quarter Social Media Index Report – July 2023

The report reviews the outlook and performance of Ghanaian Radio stations, TV stations and Newspapers based on their…

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2nd Quarter Social Media Index Report – July 2023

2023 · Journalism
Journalism 2023

The Role of MIL as a key strategy towards dispelling Climate Change Misinformation

This study explores the role of media and information literacy as a key strategy towards dispelling climate change…

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The Role of MIL as a key strategy towards dispelling Climate Change Misinformation

2023 · Journalism
Journalism 2022

Assessing the Contemporary Ghanaian Media: A study of the Opportunities and Challenges of the media post Covid-19 pandemic

The media’s role in shaping understanding, bringing issues to the fore and generally contributing to the development of…

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Assessing the Contemporary Ghanaian Media: A study of the Opportunities and Challenges of the media post Covid-19 pandemic

2022 · Journalism
Journalism 2022

1st QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – MARCH 2022

The report reviews the outlook and performance of Newspapers, Radio and TV stations in Ghana based on their…

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1st QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – MARCH 2022

2022 · Journalism
Journalism 2019

1ST QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – MARCH 2019

The March 2019 report reviews the outlook and performance of Newspapers, Radio and TV stations in Ghana based…

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1ST QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – MARCH 2019

2019 · Journalism
African Elections 2019

Penplusbytes 2018 Annual Report

2018 presented a great year for Penplusbytes. We saw some exciting innovations in newsrooms all the way through…

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Penplusbytes 2018 Annual Report

2019 · African Elections
Journalism 2018

3RD QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – SEPTEMBER 2018

The September 2018 report reviews the outlook and performance of Newspapers, Radio and TV stations in Ghana based…

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3RD QUARTER SOCIAL MEDIA INDEX REPORT – SEPTEMBER 2018

2018 · Journalism

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