Why we fact-check mermaids, lion pictures & urban myths
Fact-checking can be serious business but we don’t shy away from its lighter side. The wild and wacky are fair game and they serve an import...
Fact-checking can be serious business but we don’t shy away from its lighter side. The wild and wacky are fair game and they serve an import...
While former South African president Nelson Mandela remains, perhaps, among the most quotable statesmen of our time, quotes are many times i...
From calculating the size of a stack of R200 notes to measuring water-flow and counting cattle, Africa Check certainly covers the gamut. Res...
Senior researcher Kate Wilkinson is an Africa Check veteran, having joined the organisation in 2013. In this piece, she rounds up her top fa
Great fact-checks puncture myths with rigour, but also in a way that reshapes the public debate by focusing on the true scale of a particula
Africa Check is happy to sign this open letter, together with fact-checking partners from around the world, asking for an open conversation
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Who checks the fact-checkers? Africa Check has signed up to the International Fact-Checking Network's code of principles. This enables you ...
Genocide Watch places South Africa on stage six of its “Ten Stages of Genocide”. But it was either unwilling or unable to provide evidence t
Fear of crime remains high but the evidence suggests that people in South Africa are about half as likely to be physically assaulted or kill...
How does our society allow charlatans who mess with our health to proliferate? It's a difficult question to answer but public education and
Jon Greenberg, from our partner fact-checking organisation Politifact, reviews the hopes and concerns of the organisers of the 21st Internat
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