NMC lauds coalition working on information integrity

The National Media Commission (NMC) has welcomed an initiative working on information integrity to sanitise the information space.

Dubawa, FactSpace West Africa and other civil society organisations working on information integrity announced the formation of the Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition “to mitigate the menacing threat misinformation and disinformation pose to the country’s peace, stability and democratic consolidation”.

The NMC has since welcomed the initiative and congratulated the “organisations involved in the ground-breaking coalition”.

“It is one of the most crucial interventions needed to protect our nation’s information space in the last lap to the elections,” the NMC said in a statement signed by its Executive Secretary, George Sarpong.

“The deluge of malign information operations observed from both internal and external sources in the past couple of weeks gives cause for concern.

By choosing to leverage their collective experience, expertise, credibility and resources, the coalition has enhanced Ghana’s capacity to address these threats, and offered hope for the containment of disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference,” the statement added.

The commission consequently encouraged all stakeholders working to promote peaceful elections to cooperate with the coalition.

“The National Media Commission hopes to support the coalition by making available to them our Ghana Media Watch App, a cutting-edge technology for monitoring disinformation planned to be launched on Thursday, November 14, 2024,” the statement said.