Guides

Learn how to smoke out hoaxers posing as the real deal on Twitter in this guide.

Fake news sites can look very convincing. Here are two tools as well as tips to help you check the credibility of a website.

This step-by-step guide explains how to do a reverse image search to check whether the photo you saw on social media is the real thing.

Supposed scientific articles published in questionable academic journals can easily dupe researchers - and seriously erode the body of scien...

Black participation in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange continues to be the topic of heated debate in South Africa. This guide explains the d...

In South Africa, fake news websites are mushrooming. How do you recognise a fake news story and what can you do to stop these websites? Anim...

The massive movements of people, fueled by the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, has put migration at the top of the global human rights agenda...

South Africa is notorious for its levels of rape. But the true extent of the problem is unknown. This guide looks at the limited data availa...

Scientific research is conducted by experts, but they may have agendas of their own. How can journalists and the public tell whether they're...

Print our useful fact-checking flow-chart and stick it up where you can quickly refer to it when a deadline is pressing.

Do you get confused by statistical terms like confidence intervals, causation and absolute percentage increases? Read this guide for a break...

Visualising data on a map can be a intimidating – there’s a lot of jargon and it can get quite complicated. This guide is designed to demyst...