What's Crap on WhatsApp?

What's Crap on WhatsApp?

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What's Crap on WhatsApp? episodes

  • Will one million girls across sub-Saharan Africa be blocked from returning to school due to pregnancy during Covid-19?
    Will one million girls across sub-Saharan Africa be blocked from returning to school due to pregnancy during Covid-19?
    Vaccines have never been used to control outbreaks?
    Did a businessman demolish his mother-in-law's house?
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume. Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    6 min
  • Was this man buried in his favourite car, with the seatbelt fastened?
    🦠 Does a Facebook post claim that South Africa has confirmed its “first three Ebola cases”?
    🦷 Do the colour coded blocks on your toothpaste tube indicate its ingredients?
    🚘 Was South African politician and businessman Tshekedi Pitso buried in his Mercedes-Benz?
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume.
    Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    7 min
  • Are Port Elizabeth’s Covid cases linked to poor drinking water?
    💰 Did a R200m Covid-19 vaccine tender go to the daughter of South African provincial premier?
    🚕 Does South Africa’s taxi industry transport 70% of commuters?
    💧 Are Port Elizabeth’s Covid cases linked to poor drinking water?
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume.
    Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    8 min
  • Is that cyclone Eloise tearing houses apart in Mozambique?
    💬 What’s up with your data on WhatsApp? Explaining the app’s new privacy terms.
    🌀 Does a video show cyclone Eloise tearing houses apart in Mozambique?
    🙅🏾‍♂️ Does this photo shows South African soldiers helping Zimbabwean migrants illegally cross a border?
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume.
    Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    7 min
  • Is cactus juice a cure for snake bites and scorpion stings?
    🌵 Is cactus juice a cure for snake bites and scorpion stings?
    💉 Did Australia abandon a Covid-19 vaccine after FALSE positive HIV test results.
    📵 Did a message say Covid-19 does not exist and 5G cellular networks are making people sick.
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume.
    ➡️ Your friends & family can subscribe by clicking this link: bit.ly/WhatsCrap. You can also get this episode as a regular podcast: bit.ly/2TzsPWe
    9 min
  • 2020 Round-up - the most horrendous claims from a terrible year
    The best of 2020.
    Produced by Africa Check and Volume. Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    📶 Are disease outbreaks – including coronavirus – caused by 3G, 4G or 5G.
    🧠 Are infrared thermometers “causing potential health issues by aiming an infrared ray to the pineal gland”?
    🐒 Did monkeys “escape with Covid-19 samples” after attacking a lab assistant?
    ➡️ Your friends & family can subscribe by clicking this link: bit.ly/WhatsCrap. You can also get this episode as a regular podcast: bit.ly/2TzsPWe
    7 min
  • Is there a nail polish that can detect date-rape drugs in a drink?
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume. Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    💅🏽 Is there a nail polish that can detect date-rape drugs in a drink.
    ⚰️ Do these photos show graves submerged beneath South Africa’s Vaal Dam?
    🎓 Did the minister of basic education say “whites forced education down our throats”?
    Subscribe to find out!
    5 min
  • Are there 15 million ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?
    Are there 15 million ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?
    Are there 48,000 potholes on Johannesburg’s roads?
    Does this picture show an exhausted South African farmer after fighting deliberately set fires?
    Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume. Presented by Paul McNally and Kate Wilkinson.
    7 min
  • Palm wine, bitter kola and lime
    💊 Is a mixture of palm wine, bitter kola and lime a “remedy to cure the appendix”. No!
    👩🏼‍🌾 Have South Africa’s commercial farmers declined from 120,000 in 1994 to 38,000? This is misleading.
    💉 Does this photo show two boys - one vaccinated and one not - exposed to smallpox? Yes.
    💩 Get the facts in this episode of "What's Crap on WhatsApp?" The show is produced by Africa Check & Volume.
    6 min

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