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Disinformation biggest challenge to practice of journalism

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Disinformation is one of the biggest challenges to the practice of journalism and media stakeholders should find ways to fight it.

Speaking at the Africa Media Convention in Arusha, Tanzania, Kenya Editors Guild President Churchill Otieno said that one of the key tenets of journalism is to report the truth yet this is under attack from misinformation and disinformation.

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