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Uganda's first premier fact-checking organisation

Debunk Media Initiative is a non-profit media start-up in Kampala Uganda that focuses on media literacy and fact-checking to enable youths to make informed decisions.

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Our Mission

To enhance the capacity and competence of the media, youths, leaders and communities to address the challenge of misinformation.


What we do

We train young African youths in media and information literacy to promote access to accurate information and conduct fact-checking training for media and journalism students to counter disinformation across universities in Uganda.

We launched the Debunk Information Verifier to allow access to factual information among young people and to promote direct engagement with experts on human rights, democracy, education, health, and gender among others.

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Why Us

We run a residential fact-checking fellowship accorded to the most critical student journalists to enable evidence-based reporting using fact-checking and media literacy skills obtained from the training.

We continue to produce our fact-checking series dubbed the Debunk show, a multimedia series that exposes underlying myths and misconceptions in various rural communities in Uganda.

We partner with rural radio stations to localise fact-checking and incorporate it in radio programs.

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Our Partners

Debunk Media Initiative works with organisations, institutions and partners that align with the vision of ensuring access to information as a fundamental human right.

We depend on the financial support and assistance of our partners, funders and allies.

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