June 28, 2023
Africa: No Evidence That COVID -19 Vaccines Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers have found no links between Covid-19 vaccines and multiple sclerosis. Misinformation and disinformation around Covid-19 and vaccines have been doing the rounds on… Read more »
May 31, 2023
Africa: No, Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Didn't Say He's Had COVID 23 Times - Fake Headline and Op-ED
An odd bit of Britain's anti-vax politics has spread around the world in a screenshot that seems to have journalist George Monbiot saying, among other things, that "billions of… Read more »
Africa: No, Guardian Columnist Monbiot Didn't Say He's Had COVID 23 Times - Fake Headline and Op-ED
An odd bit of Britain's antivax politics has spread around the world in a screenshot that seems to have journalist George Monbiot saying, among other things, that "billions of kids… Read more »
May 23, 2023
Africa: No, Pfizer Didn't Admit It Lied About Testing Efficacy of COVIS Vaccine
A claim that pharmaceutical company Pfizer has admitted to lying about testing the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine is still circulating on social media in South Africa. But this… Read more »
April 20, 2023
Africa: No Graphene Oxide in Covid-19 Vaccines, Pfizer Document Taken Out of Context
IN SHORT: We've seen many false and misleading claims about Covid-19 and the vaccines to prevent it since the start of 2020. The latest rumour about a vaccine ingredient, spreading… Read more »
March 30, 2023
Africa: A 4,070 Percent Increase in Miscarriages and Stillbirths Amongs Pregnant Women Who Took the Covid Vaccine? Entirely False
IN SHORT: There is no data to support the claim of a 4,070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths as a result of taking the Covid mRNA vaccine. In fact, maternal health experts… Read more »
March 07, 2023
Africa: No, People Vaccinated Against Covid-19 Don't Develop Aids - Claim Peddled By Known False-Information Website
IN SHORT: In early 2023 a familiar anti-vaxx rumour started spreading on social media again, claiming that people vaccinated against Covid-19 were developing "Aids-like symptoms".… Read more »
January 31, 2023
Africa: No, Bill Gates Has Not Vowed to 'Pump MRNA Vaccines Into Food Supply'
IN SHORT: The Covid-19 pandemic saw not only disease spread worldwide, but misinformation too. Much of this has been around how vaccines do or don't work. A recent claim that… Read more »
December 13, 2022
South Africa: 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. But as fears about the virus recede, other health… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: No, Covid Vaccination in Africa Not Just 6 Percent, As Tweet Claims - Uptake Improving
IN SHORT: A tweet that claims only 6% of the African population is vaccinated against Covid is false. The actual figure, according to the World Health Organisation, is 21%. Read more »
December 09, 2022
South Africa: South Africans Took Wrong Covid Vaccine? No!
IN SHORT: A tweet claiming that South Africans were given the "wrong Covid vaccine" is incorrect. A batch of an unauthorised nasal spray to help treat Covid symptoms was ordered by… Read more »
December 08, 2022
South Africa: Jabbed Germans Banned From Buying Cars? No. Tired Old Covid Disinformation Gets Weirder
IN SHORT: Almost three years after the Covid pandemic began, conspiracy theorists are still trying to sell their ideas online. This time, it's not true that the 75% of Germans… Read more »
September 20, 2022
Africa: No, Covid Vaccines Don't Cause Body to Produce Toxic Spike Proteins That Cause Cancer
IN SHORT: A US doctor, who has previously made untrue claims about Covid-19 and vaccines, is on thin ice in saying the vaccines make your body produce a "toxin" spike protein which… Read more »
August 23, 2022
Africa: No Link Between Monkeypox and Pfizer Covid Vaccine - the Exposé Conspiracy Site Makes Up Evidence, Again
"Every single country where monkeypox is allegedly showing up is also a country that has aggressively pushed the Pfizer Covid-19 injection to its population," reads a screenshot… Read more »
July 27, 2022
South Africa: Video Does Show a Street in Paris, but in 2016 and Shortly After a Police Crackdown On Migrants
A video, published on Facebook with the caption "Paris, France", shows a wide street littered with mattresses and rubbish. Read more »
June 29, 2022
South Africa: No, Heart Disease in Children Has Not 'Exploded' Because of the Covid-19 Vaccine
A Facebook post published on 7 June 2022 shows a photo of the front cover of a newspaper called the Irish Light with the headline: "Heart disease in children explodes since… Read more »
June 23, 2022
Kenya: Pfizer Covid Vaccine Has Efficacy of Just 12 Percent? No, Screenshot of Global News Headline Fake
"Pfizer clinical trial data reveals the company's Covid vaccine has a 12% efficacy rate," reads the headline on what seems to be a screenshot of an article by the… Read more »
June 03, 2022
Africa: Absolutely Bananas - Don't Believe Claims That Covid Vaccines Contain Monkeypox
Following the World Health Organization's (WHO's) announcement of an outbreak of monkeypox, several Facebook posts have suggested that a vaccine against Covid-19 could be the… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: No, Pharmaceutical Company VP Not Arrested and Coronavirus Vaccine Not Experimental
A number of social media posts claim that Rady Johnson, the executive vice president of pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of fraud… Read more »
May 12, 2022
Nigeria: Do More Than Half of Nigerians Have Covid-19 Antibodies, As Newspaper Claimed? Study Didn't Quite Say That
An analysis by Nigeria's Guardian newspaper said over 50% of the country's people have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus and survived. Read more »