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How Meta, Google Ads enable unlicensed health product campaigns exploiting Africans online (III)

A Nigerian-born, US-based professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the...

From cure to con: How Africans seeking diabetes remedy are exploited on Facebook (II)

The Facebook GlucoPro groups operate like an informal health marketplace. Seete, the South African...
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From cure to con: How Africans seeking diabetes remedy are exploited on Facebook (I)

It began with a 2023 Facebook post claiming to offer a cure for diabetes....

Inside the coup that never happened: How social media fuelled false claims in Côte d’Ivoire

Despite the lack of any proof of a coup or disturbance on the ground,...
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From economic protests to coup agitation: How Nigeria’s hunger protest took a radical turn

Cloudflare Turnstile A protest intended to express public dissatisfaction with the way the Nigerian government...

‘I cured thousands of cancer patients’: Facebook is allowing pages to spread health misinformation through ads

Meta, owner of Facebook, is allowing health misinformation and disinformation to run freely on...
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Truth under fire: The multi-front assault on facts during 2023 Nigerian election

Many Nigerians yearn for the opportunity to participate in a peaceful voting process, one...

How Tiktok account created viral video of Senegalese president criticising France

Two days after Senegal presidential election, a video alleged to be of the eventual...
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