I have been a Visiting Researcher at University of Westminster in London since 2019, researching types, drivers and effects of misinformation and the status and effects of policies intended to counter misinformation. At the same time, I am Co-Director of a course on media freedom in the UK and Africa, run in partnership with the UK's Chevening Foundation. My professional background since 1990 has been is in journalism. In 2012, I devised and founded the fact-checking organisation Africa Check in a partnership with the Journalism Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and ran it until 2019.