Fighting the Covid-19 infodemic – five strategies for African fact-checkers
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...
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...
Kenya’s president reported on the state of the nation, nearly one and a half years since the last such address. We fact-checked his claims.
President Uhuru Kenyatta made claims about the covid-19 positivity rate in August and September national speeches, his claims didn't add up.
South African transport minister claimed that HEPA filters are capable of “eating any form of virus” including the novel coronavirus
The Daily Nation highlighted the role of obesity on hospitalisations and deaths from the disease. We check if 2 in 5 Kenyans are obese.
Member of parliament in South Africa's second-largest opposition party, tweeted that South Africa is not ready to ease covid-19 lockdown.
The EFF said that 10 children dying disproved the theory that young people were less susceptible to contracting the virus. We checked.
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