{"id":233897,"date":"2026-05-21T04:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cjid-eu-launch-initiative-to-fight-disinformation-strengthen-democratic-resilience-in-north-west-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:27:28","slug":"nigeria-cjid-eu-launch-initiative-to-fight-disinformation-strengthen-democratic-resilience-in-north-west-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cjid-eu-launch-initiative-to-fight-disinformation-strengthen-democratic-resilience-in-north-west-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: CJID, EU Launch Initiative to Fight Disinformation, Strengthen Democratic Resilience in North-West Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">CJID Executive Director Akintunde Babatunde said the initiative would deploy a coordinated package of interventions, combining media literacy education, journalism capacity building, open-source intelligence (OSINT), artificial intelligence-assisted verification, local-language engagement, and grassroots community mobilisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The European Union (EU) and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CJIDAfrica\">Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development<\/a><\/strong> (CJID) have launched an 18-month project to counter disinformation and strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200646.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJID Executive Director Akintunde Babatunde said the initiative would deploy a coordinated package of interventions, combining media literacy education, journalism capacity building, open-source intelligence (OSINT), artificial intelligence-assisted verification, local-language engagement, and grassroots community mobilisation. The European Union (EU) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have launched an 18-month project to counter disinformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,54444,6404,26753,4345,9890,5741,257,4687,393,20950,18205,254,6433],"class_list":["post-233897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cjid","tag-democratic","tag-disinformation","tag-fight","tag-initiative","tag-launch","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-northwest","tag-resilience","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/233897","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=233897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}