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Published on 13/04/2021

This image of a Guinean hospital has been used in multiple false posts

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Published on 13/04/2021

Story claiming Chinese confiscated shipment of 7,200 penises originated on satirical website

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Published on 12/04/2021

Facebook account impersonating Johns Hopkins Medicine spreads fabricated job listings

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Published on 12/04/2021

Footage of destroyed military plane includes old clip of Syrian helicopter exploding over Damascus

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Published on 12/04/2021

Nigeria has seen unemployment rise steadily since Buhari took office in 2015

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Published on 09/04/2021

This petrol station robbery took place in Zimbabwe, not South Africa

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Published on 09/04/2021

Still no evidence Rwanda's president ordered deportation of 18 Chinese nationals after claim resurfaces

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Published on 08/04/2021

To date, no tree has been verified to be 6,000 or more years old

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Covid-19
Published on 07/04/2021

Facebook posts misleadingly claim only one politician has died from Covid-19

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Published on 02/04/2021

This video was taken in 2018 when former US president Barack Obama visited Kenya

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Covid-19
Published on 02/04/2021

Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are not proven Covid-19 treatments

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Published on 02/04/2021

This video was taken in Bangladesh in February 2021, weeks before a ship blocked the Suez Canal

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Published on 31/03/2021

Recent posts about 34 children found in a truck in South Africa are false, harking back to older incidents

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Published on 31/03/2021

Embassy denies that Russian leader ridiculed Ethiopia’s prime minister about rainfall technology

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Published on 31/03/2021

This image shows two Kenyan actresses – not Tanzania’s new leader and her daughter

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Published on 30/03/2021

Suez ship baselessly linked to QAnon conspiracy theory about Clintons

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Published on 30/03/2021

This image of a flooded road in Nigeria has been circulating online since 2019

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Covid-19
Published on 29/03/2021

Facebook account impersonating Ugandan newspaper promotes fabricated job listings

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Published on 26/03/2021

This hacker stole billions to fund his ‘luxurious’ lifestyle, not to donate to the poor

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Published on 25/03/2021

The story of an American plane reappearing after 37 years is a myth

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Published on 25/03/2021

Footage shows cemetery swept away by floods in Tajikistan

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Published on 25/03/2021

The US Department of Defense did not announce an airstrike on Ethiopia

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Published on 25/03/2021

Video shows human remains in a 13th century church ossuary in Milan, not Vatican City

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Covid-19
Published on 23/03/2021

Anti-lockdown group promotes misleading claims about face masks as 'fact check'

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Published on 23/03/2021

This digitally-altered image does not show police fleeing attack in southeast Nigeria

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Published on 23/03/2021

These photos were taken at a funeral home in Kenya in February 2020

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Myanmar military coup
Published on 23/03/2021

These photos show unrelated incidents in Afghanistan, Nigeria and a film scene

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Published on 22/03/2021

Scam claims to offer businesses free cash on behalf of Kenya’s first lady

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