IN SHORT: The Nigeria Forest Security Service is not recruiting. Interested social media users should ignore posts encouraging them to apply from 11 November 2025, and check the service’s official ...

IN SHORT: A claim that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is critically ill and in hospital is circulating on social media. However, there is no evidence to support it. Two graphics circulating on ...

IN SHORT: According to some Facebook posts, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said “Nigeria would have become a completely Islamized country” without Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the ...

IN SHORT: A video showing US president Donald Trump apparently urging Ugandans not to forgive their president, Yoweri Museveni, until he steps down and retires from politics has gone viral online.

There’s no denying that murder rates in South Africa are high. But two bold claims published by the Guardian still caught our ...

IN SHORT: Claims on Facebook that the injection will replace ARVs in Kenya are false. Lenacapavir is a long-acting antiretroviral that offers six months of protection. It is intended for high-risk ...

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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims about cancer, vaccines and the Pope’s death. We investigated. The pastor advised ...

South African billionaire Johann Rupert, US president Donald Trump (May 2025) There is no evidence to back billionaire Johann Rupert’s claim that undocumented foreigners are mainly behind farm murders ...

IN SHORT: Old claims from 2023 have resurfaced in January 2025, repeating news reports that the South African government had imposed new race-based regulations on exports that would devastate the ...

IN SHORT: A video which has gained popularity on various social media platforms in early 2024 is a doctored version of a 2009 interview in which Eminem made no mention of South African politics. A ...

IN SHORT: Videos promising a 'new secret investment' project by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, have several visual, audio and contextual clues that the clips are deepfakes. South Africa's public ...