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 an image circulating on social media in Kenya, Citizen TV reported that the university’s staff union has called off the ongoing 2025 lecturers’ strike. However, the news report ...
There’s no denying that murder rates in South Africa are high. But two bold claims published by the Guardian still caught our ...
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 ...
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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: South Africa’s upcoming general election has seen the resurgence of an old rumour – that the vote of anyone who doesn’t vote is “automatically” given to the ruling African National Congress.
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 ...
Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other low-effort forms of information deception. Human rights organisation Amnesty International ...
The media has featured a steady stream of articles and think-pieces about artificial intelligence in 2023, as new AI-powered tools launched and became easier to use. But we’ve taken it back to basics ...
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