How do you know if you are being fed rubbish on WhatsApp? | City Press

06 May 2019

Don’t share your uncle’s conspiracy theories.

Kate Wilkinson from Africa Check discusses with City Press political journalist S’thembile Cele the misinformation being permeated through WhatsApp and how to identify those misleading stories and images.

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