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Disinformation Detection Platform — Penplusbytes' Real-Time AI Monitoring for Ghana's 2024 Election

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For Ghana's December 2024 general election, Penplusbytes ran an AI-powered Disinformation Detection Platform that flagged close to 1,900 election-related incidents, including 38 confirmed disinformation posts on X alone on election day.

~1,900
Election-related incidents flagged (election day, Dec 2024)
38
Confirmed disinformation posts on X (election day)
400+
Youth volunteers trained
Disinformation Detection Platform — Penplusbytes' Real-Time AI Monitoring for Ghana's 2024 Election

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Penplusbytes, with the Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition and CODEO
Period
2024
Keywords
civil society, election monitoring, disinformation detection, AI/network analysis

Context

Ahead of Ghana's December 2024 general election, media-technology organisation Penplusbytes deployed its Disinformation Detection Platform (DDP), an AI and network-analysis tool tracking, collecting and analysing social media content in real time, under the EU-co-funded AHEAD Africa programme with the Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition and CODEO.

Objectives

Track and counter election-related disinformation in real time to support electoral integrity.

Activities

The platform fed a rapid verification-and-debunking workflow run with fact-checking partners, while a parallel youth-engagement track trained volunteers to spread verified information and counter false narratives peer-to-peer.

Results

On election day the platform flagged close to 1,900 election-related incidents, including 38 confirmed disinformation posts on X alone, and the youth track trained over 400 young volunteers across conferences in Accra and Tamale.

Conclusions

Penplusbytes subsequently extended the same monitoring approach to Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso, but as a civil-society-led platform working through informal partnerships with electoral bodies rather than one operated directly by the state, its long-term institutionalisation within Ghana's public electoral administration remains donor-dependent and not yet formalised.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Penplusbytes monitoring team, Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition and CODEO partners, 400+ trained youth volunteers

Conditions for success

  • EU co-funding via the AHEAD Africa programme
  • Informal coordination with Ghana's Electoral Management Bodies
  • A fact-checking partner network for rapid verification

Common failure modes

  • As a civil-society-led, donor-dependent platform working through informal partnerships, long-term institutionalisation within state electoral administration is not yet formalised

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