
What gets fact-checked? How politics shapes the answer in four African countries
Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for themselves.
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Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for themselves.

Zimbabwe’s goal should be to promote wider adoption of the local currency, not to use technology to force it.
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 25, 2026.

By Juno Reyes in Manila The arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. is an attack on press freedom in the Philippines, says the veteran investigative journalist’s lawyer Dino De Leon. Lustre was arrested at a restaurant in Quezon City yesterday for alleged cyber libel. He was served an arrest warrant issued by Branch 10 of Davao

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts ever, the Pacific Islands Forum has betrayed one of its founding principles in admitting Israel — already a global rogue pariah state — as a development partner in the middle of the genocide of an Indigenous
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 24, 2026.

A children’s literature author explains how some of her favorite Halloween-themed children’s books can help children prepare for the holiday ahead.

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on the New Zealand government to act against the “weaponisation” and “engineering” of starvation by Israel in its ongoing war on Gaza Strip. “Palestinian survival must never be a bargaining chip,” says Palestine Forum of Palestine chair Maher Nazzal in response to news this week that

Pacific Media Watch “You’re not just reporting on the story … you are the main character.” That’s how award-winning Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini sums up her experience while “documenting history” in Israel’s three-year genocidal war on Gaza. In the latest episode of Middle East Eye’s “The Gaza Podcast”, host Hussam Tannera

The shadow population of deceased relatives is more than three times as large as today’s living population.

A cybersecurity researcher explains how a flaw in widespread software makes millions of websites vulnerable to hackers – and underscores the role of AI in attacking and defending the internet.

Birth involves emissions from travel, pain relief and disposable products, but system-level changes can reduce them without restricting choice.