Keegan Leech

Claims published on social media platforms say former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed while planning to introduce an international currency backed by large gold reserves. (Note: Gaddafi’s surname is sometimes transliterated as Qaddafi or other variations.) Some of the po...

A video circulating on Facebook and other social media platforms shows two young children describing disturbing acts that they were subjected to or forced to commit. Among other things, the children describe being sexually assaulted and forced to kill and eat babies. This video was shared in May ...

A video shared several times on social media in March 2023 supposedly shows South African politician Elias “Ace” Magashule rallying support for the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Some social media users have claimed that the video was taken at the funeral of Tate Makgoe, the fo...

Since 2008, South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility Eskom has implemented increasingly frequent electricity blackouts, euphemistically referred to as load shedding. This is meant to prevent the r grid from collapsing after years of declining generating capacity. But has the power utility...