Fact-check: These images are not of a man named Bismark in Juba
#211Check – Fact Checked Reports
Fact-check: Did FVP Riek Machar endorse President Salva Kiir for Presidency?
Fact-check: South Sudan does have a postal office
Fact-check: These aren’t images of a snake cursed by Torit residents' grandparents
Fact-check: Image of Yaba Ladu Anthony from Munuki is doctored and used for satire
Fact-check: No, the Government of South Sudan is not giving free loans
Data Story: Covid-19 vaccine, the fear of the unknown
Fact-check: Customs market battery photo traced to Zambia
No, this picture has been used in Zambia and Kenya. All the evidence shows that this picture didn’t originate from Rumbek, South Sudan Writer: Jibi Moses An image posted on a local online Facebook page Juba Eye, claiming an Angel
Fact-check: This man with dog meat was not arrested at Gudele One
Fact-check: A Facebook post saying banks in South Sudan are approving loans is a scam
Fact-check: This image was not taken in Juba
Data Story: 10.23% rise in the number of students registered for the certificate of secondary education examinations this year
Fact-check: A massive figure sightings over Juba and Rumbek proven false
Fact-check: Rumor of an earthquake in South Sudan debunked; no seismic activity recorded
Data Story: Over 260 abductees reunited with their families between 2021 and 2023 in Jonglei and GPAA
Fact-check: Ramciel City’s most misleading master plan photos
Social Media Health Report | January 2023
Data Story: 12.34% rise in the number of pupils registered for the certificate of primary education examinations this year.
A claim on Twitter that Ugandans were shot dead in Juba for burning charcoal on February 10, 2023, is false and misleading. Writer: Emmanuel Bida Thomas A claim by a Twitter user in a tweet on February 10, 2023, that
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Fact-Checking & Information Verification In South Sudan
211 Check is South Sudan’s first and only independent fact-checking and information verification flagship project established by Defyhatenow in March 2020 to counter COVID-19 dis/misinformation but has since grown in its scope of work. It became a signatory of the International Fact-checking Network’s (IFCN) Code of Principles in March 2023.
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