ANALYSIS: Coronavirus in Africa - to mask or not to mask, that is the question
With face masks flying off global shelves due to panic buying, should you also strain every sinew to get one? We take a look at what the sci...
With face masks flying off global shelves due to panic buying, should you also strain every sinew to get one? We take a look at what the sci...
South Africans across the country are planting Spekboom in an attempt to combat climate change. But is this a good idea?
How do you fight the misinformation octopus? One tentacle at a time.
In this briefing series, Full Fact’s Research Team and partners at Africa Check and Chequeado, draw on the latest academic evidence to expla...
The deliberate and sustained seeding of incorrect information on social media would have many thinking a new state is imminent in Nigeria. N...
Social media can be an open highway for false information. Dancan Bwire and Grace Gichuhi, researchers from our Nairobi office, look back on...
Africa Check’s Kenya deputy editor tackled health misinformation all through 2019. Here’s what he took away.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck … it might be someone impersonating a duck on Twitter. Here’s how to spot a tweeting imposte...
What fact-checking format helps people best understand a topic? How do politicians respond to fact-checking? How can we reach even more audi...
A video of two small boys in a martial arts stance, tears running down their faces, has more than 10 million views on Twitter. We tracked it...
The World Bank's inequality rankings place South Africa at the top. Is this a “harsh exaggeration”, as politician Baleka Mbete said in an in...
Soweto is accused of a culture of not paying for public services that is rooted in resistance to apartheid. But do the township’s residents ...
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