Verificide and Trufacturization: Global Fact-Checking Infrastructure Across Epistemic Lines

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In this conference presentation delivered at the 2025 Symposium on African Digital Humanities in Accra, Ghana, I introduced two concepts: Verificide and Trufacturization. Drawing from decolonial theory, African epistemologies, and AI critique, this work exposes how global fact-checking infrastructures systematically erase or marginalize autochthonous truth systems. Verificide refers to the epistemic annihilation of Indigenous verification traditions while Trufacturization, on the other hand, describes how dominant epistemic regimes manufacture “facts” through institutional, algorithmic, and discursive power. The presentation reframes (digital) verification as an act of epistemic geopolitics. The work is part of a broader doctoral project and offers conceptual and methodological tools for rethinking truth, verification, and power in the age of algorithmic authority.

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