Justin Arenstein

Are you curious about how our media watchdogs get subverted, by foreign nation states and other influence pedlars? Code for Africa (CfA) is recruiting a group of investigative researchers to dig into how foreign governments and industry lobbyists influence media policy and reportage.

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CODE FOR AFRICA / FORBIDDEN STORIES A six-month undercover probe using extensive analysis of digital evidence to investigate the secretive global disinformation-for-hire industry has unmasked a crusading investigative reporter, Anita Pettit, as a completely fictitious persona created by a shadowy Israeli private intelligence company, Percepto International, to smear opponents and subvert elections. For crusading investigative reporter Anita Pettit, “the truth has no secrets”.