Malawi Voice falsified media coverage percentages for Lazarus Chakwera, Peter Mutharika

False

Elections 2025

Malawi Voice falsified media coverage percentages for Lazarus Chakwera, Peter Mutharika

FACT-CHECKED by iVerify

September 4, 2025

iVerify Malawi review of the MACRA report on political coverage by the media found that the percentages by Malawi Voice do not exist. Additionally, the report has no data on individual politicians. Malawi Voice also makes a false analogy between the MACRA report and the just-released IPOR Survey on voting intentions.

Claim

Malawi Voice claims MACRA says Lazarus Chakwera is receiving 85 percent of media coverage while Peter Mutharika is receiving negative 800 percent of media coverage

Rating Justification

iVerify Malawi verified the information and determined that it is false. To arrive at this verdict, iVerify Malawi reviewed the MACRA Broadcasting Monitoring Unit Political Coverage Report and found that the report does not have media coverage figures of 85 percent for Lazarus Chakwera and negative 800 percent for Peter Mutharika as claimed by Malawi Voice. The report, which covers all broadcasters in Malawi, contains shares of positive and negative media coverage of different political parties by each broadcaster, and there are no quantitative breakdowns for the media coverage of individual politicians.

Evidence and References

MACRA Broadcasting Monitoring Unit Political Coverage Report
https://web.facebook.com/share/p/1CbKd4Fp3m/

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