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Ashraf Hendricks
ANALYSIS: South African minority party right to be worried over North West crime stats, but lockdown skewed numbers
A Freedom Front Plus leader in North West said the murder rate for the province nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021. Is he right?
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Know the Facts Get the Vax – helping people make better choices about Covid and vaccines
Africa Check’s Know the Facts Get the Vax multimedia series answers common questions about Covid vaccines.
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ANALYSIS: As Tanzania changes tack on Covid-19, leaders have role to play in pushing accurate information
Tanzanians have struggled to keep up with policy changes as the country goes from no plans for Covid vaccines to pushing mass vaccination.
PRESS RELEASE: New international study shows fact-checks significantly reduce belief in misinformation
The comparative study is among the first to examine fact-checking effectiveness from a cross-country perspective.
ANALYSIS: Snappy anti-lockdown poster misrepresents Covid-19 and vaccination death rates
This slogan from a recent protest in South Africa’s largest city may grab attention, but little data there is so far firmly contradicts it.
Getting fact-checkers' methods into the curriculum: the six Cs of misinformation literacy
A new study argues for an expanded definition of media literacy.