An alleged mass kidnapping in Nigeria, seemingly reported live on Twitter on Tuesday, was fake, police say. The news of the alleged abductions came from Twitter user @Ameerah_sufyan, who had ...
By Kin Kariisa In August 2021, a customer took to social media with claims that she had been served a milkshake with a rat in it at one of the ...
Zimbabwe's ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing miniskirts and trousers in public places. Zanu-PF national spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo in a statement ...
A claim that South African woman Gosiame Sithole gave birth to 10 babies earlier this month is not true, an official inquiry has found. No hospitals in Gauteng province have ...
Twitter on Monday unveiled a new tool it is piloting to combat misinformation. Called Birdwatch, the crowdsourcing tool aims to enlist other Twitter users to vet tweets they think contain misinformation. ...
Social network executives have been grilled by MPs on the role their platforms played in recent events in Washington which saw a mob break into Congress. All said that they ...
Facebook will begin removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines from its social media platform, the company said Thursday, as part of an ongoing campaign to combat the spread of misinformation ...
The author Yemisi Adegoke Just under four months after Africa recorded its first coronavirus case, the number of confirmed cases has reached more than 250,000. Although ...
Africa’s leading Pay-Tv operator StarTimes launched a new dedicated TV program to share the latest information about the COVID-19 epidemic. The StarTimes Daily —— COVID-19 Report is broadcast every weekday ...
In a major break from other internet companies, Twitter said on Wednesday it would no longer accept political ads, a decision that will affect users and political campaigns in the ...
