Four years ago, Wisconsin Watch took a leap of faith. We published our first Fact Brief in partnership with Gigafact, a tiny experiment meant to do something deceptively simple: answer suspicious claims with a clear yes or no. We called it the “fight for facts,” and at the time, none of us knew how much that fight would come to define our newsroom. Since then, we have published nearly seven hundred short, no-nonsense responses to claims we spotted floating around the infosphere—some surprising, some dubious, some simply too strange to ignore. The mission was never to win an argument or…

In a landmark legal development that has sent ripples through Kenya’s political landscape, the High Court in Kiambu has delivered a judgment affirming the constitutional rights of retired presidents to engage in active politics. The ruling, which struck down a provision of law that sought to restrict former heads of state from participating in partisan political activities, has been met with strong approval from key figures within the Jubilee Party. At the heart of this judicial decision lies a fundamental question about the nature of citizenship and political rights, challenging the notion that occupying the highest office in the land…