{"id":21181,"date":"2020-11-22T13:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=21181"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:02:21","slug":"fake-news-the-media-and-covid-19-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/fake-news-the-media-and-covid-19-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News, the Media and COVID-19 in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This report briefly examines the phenomenon of fake news in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Anglophone West Africa. It specifically addresses the following areas: fake news trends; how the phenomenon has impacted the work of the media and the fight against the pandemic; measures taken so far (by government, media, development partners, others) to address the spread of the phenomenon; and recommendations on the way forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fake-News-Media-COVID-19-in-WA-write-up-final.pdf\">here<\/a> to read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fake-News-Media-COVID-19-in-WA-write-up-final.pdf\">report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21182,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[754],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-21181","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-reports","report-category-media-for-democracy-good-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/21181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=21181"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=21181"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=21181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}