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Andrew Dudfield, Head of Product at Full Fact, presents the high-level insights following interviews with fact checkers around the world abo...

Journalists and journalism students across the continent can enter the awards, now in their eighth year.

According to the internet, one of South Africa’s favourite beverages, rooibos tea, can cure many ills. But are these claims accurate?

With support from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), Africa Check, the continent’s leading independent fact-checking organisation, w...

With Cyril Ramaphosa set to give his fifth state of the nation address today, we look back at claims from his previous addresses – and sugge...

South Africa’s plan for Covid-19 vaccination is to give the first shots to 1.2 million healthcare workers, president Cyril Ramaphosa has sai...

Experts have described the changes as cosmetic, but that did not stop a pushback by users, many who sought options.

Sex with lots of partners doesn’t change the size and tightness of a vagina, or the shape of the labia. Vaginal washes can be harmful. And t...

From public buses to social media in Nigeria, herbal medicines are boisterously advertised as miracle cures. They are not short of takers, e...

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, still taking lives and livelihoods across the world. Recovery from the crisis has been slowed by a g...

With movement restrictions in place due to Covid-19, unverified information still found a way of travelling, whether among family, colleague...