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Kate Wilkinson

Johannesburg
As seen in: Full Fact, News24, Business Report, TimesLIVE, PolitiFact, The Citizen (South Africa), The Press and Journal, Ealing Gazette, The Rand Daily Mail, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Bhekisisa and
AI Product Manager @FullFact | Supporting 45 orgs across 26 countries | Ex-@AfricaCheck | Twin mom
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Strengthening Arab fact checking: lessons from partnering with the Arab Fact-Checking Network – Full Fact

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By Kate Wilkinson
| Full Fact
As the conflict in the Middle East escalates dramatically, accurate information is at a premium. The internet is already awash with text and video that is either misleading or completely false, sometimes creating dangerous narratives that raise tension and cause harm. Across the Middle East and North Africa, journalists and fact checkers have always operated in complex and often high-risk information environments.
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Crime stats actually worse as ‘SAPS used wrong population figures’

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By Kate Wilkinson
| The Citizen (South Africa) Verified
After South Africa’s crime statistics for 2017/18 were released, Africa Check quickly discovered that something didn’t quite check out. To understand what went wrong, you first need to understand the difference between absolute crime numbers and crime rates. Absolute numbers refer to the number of crimes reported in a given year. For example, in 2017/18 there were 20 336 murders reported.
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Validating 'the truth' about SA's education system

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By Gopolang Makou, Kate Wilkinson
| News24 Verified
A South African Twitter account promises to "tell you the truth, no matter how hard it is to accept". But are the education claims @Sowellnomics recently tweeted to its over 10 000 followers the truth? "South Africa has the 3rd worst education system in the world, 50% of students drop out of the system, while only 30% get the marks requires [sic] to get into Uni," the account claimed. The tweet was retweeted 763 times and liked by 1 479 people by the time we published this report.
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