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Why we fact-check mermaids, lion pictures & urban myths
Fact-checking can be serious business but we don’t shy away from its lighter side. The wild and wacky are fair game and they serve an import...
COMMENT: Searching for Africa Check
Many readers locate Africa Check's reports with search terms that are at times entertaining, revealing or downright bizarre. Anim van Wyk ke...
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REVIEW: 10 hoaxes that fooled the African continent
“Out of Africa, always something new,” the worn-out expression goes. But f you applied it to these 10 hoaxes and fakes, they would have fool