{"id":13842,"date":"2020-09-04T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:21:03","slug":"free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours","title":{"rendered":"Free app counters Covid-19 rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Anyango Otieno<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A rumuor tracking platform has been helping residents of informal settlements get accurate information on Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation came up to counter increased misinformation, particularly in such settlements where many people do not have access to authoritative media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of misinformation, including that drugs like bhang and alcohol can treat coronavirus, black people cannot be infected, that coronavirus is not a real thing neither is it in Kenya and that the government is just using it to get donor funding,\u201d said Kennedy Odede, founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (Shofco), the creators of the free service.<\/p>\n<p>The SMS platform enables residents to ask questions and get the right information that helps them to protect themselves and their families from contracting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have two teams which fact-check the information. The first team checks the information against the locally available sources, then the second team deals with escalated cases for more advanced fact-checking,\u201d said Peter Okoth, IT operations manager.\u00a0Within two months of setting up the system, Shofco has reached over 400,000 residents, with the figure growing daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Anyango Otieno AfricaPress-Kenya: A rumuor tracking platform has been helping residents of informal settlements get accurate information on Covid-19. The innovation came up to counter increased misinformation, particularly in such settlements where many people do not have access to authoritative media. \u201cThere was a lot of misinformation, including that drugs like bhang and alcohol can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2111,8],"tags":[939,1539,5528,5527],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-homepage-english","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-fact-checking","tag-shofco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free app counters Covid-19 rumours - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A rumuor tracking platform has been helping residents of informal settlements get accurate information on Covid-19.The innovation came up to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free app counters Covid-19 rumours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A rumuor tracking platform has been helping residents of informal settlements get accurate information on Covid-19.The innovation came up to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-04T18:21:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/free_app_counters_co5f511917ba2b6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Free app counters Covid-19 rumours\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-04T18:21:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/free_app_counters_co5f511917ba2b6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus\",\"COVID-19\",\"Fact Checking\",\"Shofco\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/free-app-counters-covid-19-rumours\",\"name\":\"Free app counters Covid-19 rumours - 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