There are fears online that the world could be facing another pandemic in 2025.  Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a ...

For example, in 2022, Africa Check debunked a claim about poisonous biscuits that supposedly caused the death of 45 people.

The Kenyan president keeps lamenting that he has a disinformation problem. But the trouble isn’t the headlines – it’s the ...

The many related technologies known as artificial intelligence, or AI, may have felt inescapable in 2024. Countless news ...

We reflect on a year in which we worked to prevent the spread of harmful health misinformation, how scammers operate, ...

The Africa Check team has been hard at work investigating hundreds of claims over the last 12 months. Here are our most-read fact-checks for 2024, with tips to help you sort fact from fiction this ...

Following the arrest and detention of Biafra separatist Simon Ekpa in Finland, a claim circulated on Facebook that the Finnish authorities did not arrest Ekpa, but took him away to protect him from ...

In September 2024, Ruto was in Germany, where he signed a labour agreement with the government. He then spoke with the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, claiming: “... the agreement will unlock ...

IN SHORT: A fake “executive order” claimed Kenyan president William Ruto had relocated the country’s capital city from Nairobi to Nakuru. Such a move would be unmissable – it requires a change of law ...