Lilian Naa Korkoi Tackie

Lilian Naa Korkoi Tackie is a copyeditor and a first-year PhD student in the Emerging Media Studies (EMS) program at COM.

For her bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology (double major), Naa Korkoi employed the mixed methods approach to conduct a study focused on the impact of birth order on the personality of teenagers in Ghana. Similarly, Naa completed her Master of Science degree in development finance with a study on the role of social intervention in facilitating financial inclusion among the unbanked in Ghana.

Her degrees were interspersed with years of professional experience in the newsroom (television) as a reporter, digital marketing as a marketing manager, renewable energy as an administration and finance officer, media production as an account manager, factchecking as a project lead, and editorial bureau as a copywriter and copyeditor.

Prior to the start of the PhD program, Naa has been working for with FactSpace West Africa—an IFCN-certified factchecking company—targeted at Anglophone West African countries on factchecking political- and covid-related misinformation on social media. The challenges encountered in the factchecking process informed Naa’s doctoral research interest in the use of AI in factchecking misinformation online. Her rationale for the research interest is that the affordance of AI technologies that facilitate the virality of misinformation and targeted advertisement should equally allow for the facilitation of the spread of corrected messages online. When she is not researching, editing or writing, Naa is either playing a game—Redecor—on her phone or getting her stretches in with her yoga practice.