We also run media literacy campaigns to equip the public with the skills they need to verify information for themselves. We began our project in September 2021 with an assessment of media literacy and fact-checking training needs in South African schools and universities, conducted by Prof Herman Wasserman and Dr Dani Madrid-Morales. Their research made it clear that simply teaching learners media literacy – which typically includes critical reading of media texts, understanding the relationship between media and audiences, and knowing how the media production process works – is not enough in today’s online environment. Based on these findings and input from several education experts, Africa Check has created fact-checking resources and training materials that high school educators can use in the classroom to teach misinformation literacy. We also ran a series of online train-the-trainer programmes for high school educators.