In Ghana, false information travels fast—often faster than the truth—and much of it spreads in the languages people actually speak every day. For many communities, English is not the first language of daily life, but social media is filled with posts, audio clips, and videos in Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Hausa, and other local languages. Recognizing this growing challenge, Penplusbytes, a Ghanaian organization known for its work in media and technology, has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered platform called KasaGadi. The platform is designed to detect, analyze, and counter misinformation and disinformation in Ghanaian local languages. It was introduced at…

It’s exhausting, isn’t it? Just when you think the world can’t get any more confusing, you see a photograph that looks real enough to break your heart. A man sits with a small dog among the rubble, dust and pain around him. Then you see the same man in another city. Then another. And suddenly, the photograph that made you feel something becomes a tool of suspicion. That’s exactly what happened recently when Russian propaganda began circulating three images of a man with a little dog, claiming he was a paid actor appearing at shelling sites in Dnipro, Kyiv, and…