What's Crap on WhatsApp?

In the first episode of 2020 we take time to reflect on the best of the past. Kate and Paul share their favourite debunks of the year.

Will a full tank of petrol explode in hot weather? Does South African Airways employ 55,500 people? Will kids get condoms with their back to school stationery next year? Does pressing 'cancel' twice before inserting your card in an ATM protect your pin? These are the questions for the latest episode of What's Crap on WhatsApp. Produced by Volume and Africa Check.

The show that debunks misinformation on WhatsApp. Brought to you by Africa Check, Volume and the International Fact-Checking Network.

In this episode Paul gets freaked out by a video of what looks like the world's smallest poisonous snake... can it be real?

In his episode we have a bumper crime edition with three debunks centred on what baddies may or may not be up to. Plus, a callback to a debunk from a previous episode.

This episode we look at the hoax that WhatsApp is closing, a scam that promises you huge amounts of money and the trend that delivery men are being robbed.

This episode we look at banking, fake poisoned juice and TWO hi-jacking hoaxes.

This episode we debunk if criminals are handing out key holders with trackers in them, does cough syrup mixed with milk kill children, will SA inmates get a bonus when they leave and is Charlize Theron a secret funder of political parties.

This week we debunk stories on WhatsApp that involve burning trucks, crying children and Zimbabweans coming to South Africa.