The changing face of Covid misinformation in South Africa: 2020 to 2022 in review
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.
This stat doing the social media rounds does beat around the bush, but much like a drunk stumbling in the dark, it eventually makes it home.
The head of a health consultancy claimed South Africa was “the most obese country in Africa”. We took a closer look at his evidence.
We look back at the worst use of statistics from 2021.
While both the absolute numbers and the rate have grown since 1994, the graphic gets the figures wrong.
A count that is underway is expected to definitively settle the question of just how many jumbos the East African country has.
Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s most populous ...
Alfred Mutua, the governor of the country’s Machakos county, had a warning about Covid-19 hospitalisations. But his numbers were off. Expert...
World Bank uses outdated stats as it announces US$500 million in funding to help educate girls in Nigeria
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