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Published on 12/08/2025

Posts falsely claim Toyota has unveiled a water-powered engine

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Published on 12/08/2025

Images of people setting bottles of food adrift towards Gaza are AI-generated

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Migration
Published on 08/08/2025

Image of man lying outside South African hospital fuels anti-migrant narratives

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Vaccines
Published on 08/08/2025

Social media posts misleadingly describe lenacapavir as a vaccine

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Ethiopia conflict
Published on 08/08/2025

Old video does not show Tigray politician declaring new war against Ethiopian government

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Published on 07/08/2025

Post falsely claims images show Nigerian children hospitalised after eating local dish

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 06/08/2025

Images showing a bridge collapsing in Nigeria are AI-generated

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Ethiopia conflict
Published on 04/08/2025

Posts falsely claim to show footage of Ethiopian prime minister fleeing country after shooting

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Published on 01/08/2025

Old images mislead about taxi violence in South Africa

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Published on 31/07/2025

Old photos circulate in hoax posts about cash scams in South Africa

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Published on 30/07/2025

Posts misleadingly claim Nigerian governor renamed school after monarch died

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Published on 28/07/2025

Old image causes confusion over convicted ex-Kenyan leader’s whereabouts

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Published on 25/07/2025

Posts falsely claim video shows burial of Nigeria’s former president Buhari

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Published on 23/07/2025

Old video of Museveni falsely linked to Kenya’s recent anniversary demonstrations

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Published on 22/07/2025

Video of drug crackdown in Ghana misrepresented as xenophobic attack on Nigerian shops

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Published on 22/07/2025

Unrelated arrest photo shared in hoax about South African child support fraud

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Published on 21/07/2025

Video shows protest in Kenya, not a demonstration against Togolese president

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Published on 21/07/2025

Doctored image falsely linked to Tanzanian treason case

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Published on 18/07/2025

Compilation of clips shows dams in South Africa and Brazil, not Ethiopia’s new Nile River project

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Published on 17/07/2025

Old video circulated with claims that coalition endorsed Nigerian opposition leader Peter Obi as presidential candidate

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Published on 16/07/2025

Image of protesters damaging road is from South Africa, not Kenya

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Published on 14/07/2025

The African Union has not announced plans to impeach Kenya’s president

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Published on 11/07/2025

Posts falsely claim UK issued warrant for South African opposition leader

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 11/07/2025

Image showing Nigeria's ex-president Goodluck Jonathan shaking hands with Donald Trump is AI-generated

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Published on 10/07/2025

Old video report misleadingly used to claim Ethiopian oil supplied to market

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Donald Trump
Published on 10/07/2025

Posts claiming Nigerian ‘Yahoo boy’ scammed Trump out of $250k are misleading

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Vaccines
Published on 09/07/2025

Deepfake of South African epidemiologist misleads on Covid-19 vaccine safety

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Published on 08/07/2025

Clips of unrelated pipelines falsely depicted as part of Ethiopian gas export project

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