{"id":181586,"date":"2024-09-30T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-journalists-to-combat-disinformation-ahead-of-2024-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:56:09","slug":"ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-journalists-to-combat-disinformation-ahead-of-2024-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-journalists-to-combat-disinformation-ahead-of-2024-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Akufo-Addo Urges Journalists to Combat Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reminded Ghanaian Journalists of their responsibility to safeguard the nation&#8217;s democracy, particularly in their reportage as the 2024 elections draw near.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">At the 28th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Media Awards last Saturday, the President emphasised the growing challenge of disinformation, misinformation and the digital age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">As part of the celebration marking 75 years of journalism excellence, the President said that while technology has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409300585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reminded Ghanaian Journalists of their responsibility to safeguard the nation&#8217;s democracy, particularly in their reportage as the 2024 elections draw near. At the 28th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Media Awards last Saturday, the President emphasised the growing challenge of disinformation, misinformation and the digital age. As part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7019,6441,12857,26753,821,4508,4509,1654,257,2450,254,6810],"class_list":["post-181586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-akufoaddo","tag-combat","tag-disinformation","tag-elections","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalists","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}