Kenyan deputy president Gachagua latest public official to repeat misleading education funding statistic
Rigathi Gachagua inaccurately claimed that education receives 27% of the national budget. The real figure is 15.2%.
Rigathi Gachagua inaccurately claimed that education receives 27% of the national budget. The real figure is 15.2%.
A national newspaper reported that 25 new cases had been confirmed in the north-central state. This is incorrect, health officials said.
The ANC’s secretary general Fikile Mbalula has repeated an incorrect claim about access to electricity in 1994.
Several media publications have repeated an incorrect claim about the number of South Africans who get social grants.
If elected, Dino Melaye hopes to exploit the state's minerals for the benefit of its people. But there's no evidence of the coveted metal.
A German publication’s claim that Tinubu inherited the highest inflation level in two decades from his predecessor is not accurate.
Scarce data is just one obstacle to combatting sexual violence.
Menstrual products brand StayFree makes two big claims in its ads on social media, but there’s very little research to back them up.
The claim that there are “15 million undocumented immigrants” in South Africa is back on Twitter, and it is still not true.
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