Sierra Leone

A fake viral video of Pope Leo XIV responding to Capt. Ibrahim Traore unnamed

A fake viral video of Pope Leo XIV responding to Capt. Ibrahim Traore

Mohamed Dauda kamara May 30, 2025

Claim: A viral video posted on Facebook by Edwuadotv claimed that the newly elected Pope Leo XIV...

True! Famous Sierra Leonean TikTok influencer has died JKB Studios

True! Famous Sierra Leonean TikTok influencer has died

Usman Fambuleh May 27, 2025

Claim: A Facebook blog called WeBlog232 claimed that Akmed Sidi, popularly known as Black Coffee, a TikTok...

False! Sierra Leone Female National Team was not stranded in Guinea over lack of funds Credit: SLFA MEDIA

False! Sierra Leone Female National Team was not stranded in Guinea over lack of funds

Usman Fambuleh May 27, 2025

Claim: A Facebook user named Hawa Dauda posted claims that the Sierra Leone Female National Team is...

Picture of Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, AI-generated USL Media

Picture of Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, AI-generated

Usman Fambuleh May 25, 2025

Claim: A Facebook user named Biggy Smalls posted a picture that he claimed to be Fourah Bay...

True! AYV journalist beaten by Sierra Leone Police Credit: AYV Media

True! AYV journalist beaten by Sierra Leone Police

Usman Fambuleh May 25, 2025

Claim: A Facebook blog called WeBlog232 claims that the Sierra Leone Police have beaten a journalist working...

False! Picture of Lungi Bridge, Freetown is AI-generated Credit: Biba

False! Picture of Lungi Bridge, Freetown is AI-generated

Usman Fambuleh May 25, 2025

Claim: A Facebook blog called Queen Biba posted a picture and claimed it was the Lungi Bridge...

Rainbow-coloured flag in viral video of Pope Leo XIV, not LGBTQ+ P.C. Vatican News.

Rainbow-coloured flag in viral video of Pope Leo XIV, not LGBTQ+

Mohamed Dauda kamara May 25, 2025

Claim: Weblog232, a Sierra Leonean blog, posted a viral video of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV,...

False! Samura Kamara has not endorsed Jagaban for APC Flagbearership Sierra Express Media

False! Samura Kamara has not endorsed Jagaban for APC Flagbearership

Patrick Samura May 25, 2025

Claim: A viral Facebook post claims Dr. Samura Kamara has backed Sierra Leonean politician Sheikh Alhaji Mohamed...

False! Justin Bieber has not admitted to sleeping with Meek Mill, Sean Diddy during Diddy’s trial

Patrick Samura May 22, 2025

Claim: A Facebook post and viral meme claim that during a court trial, Canadian singer Justin Bieber...

False! This picture is not in Bo Credit: Associated Press

False! This picture is not in Bo

Usman Fambuleh May 21, 2025

Claim: A Facebook user named Alieu Sylvalie posted a picture and claimed it was somewhere in Bo....

A fake viral video of Pope Leo XIV responding to Capt. Ibrahim Traore

True! Famous Sierra Leonean TikTok influencer has died

False! Sierra Leone Female National Team was not stranded in Guinea over lack of funds

Picture of Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, AI-generated

True! AYV journalist beaten by Sierra Leone Police

False! Picture of Lungi Bridge, Freetown is AI-generated

Rainbow-coloured flag in viral video of Pope Leo XIV, not LGBTQ+

False! Samura Kamara has not endorsed Jagaban for APC Flagbearership

False! Justin Bieber has not admitted to sleeping with Meek Mill, Sean Diddy during Diddy’s trial

False! This picture is not in Bo

Economy

Haske mai kama da makami mai linzami da aka gani a Sokoto da Kebbi na iya kasancewa tauraro mai wutsiya

Misleading! Liberia’s national legislature’s budget is not more than the country’s security apparatus bill

Misleading! Images of scattered food, not from Liberia

Claim coconut water can treat fever in children, misleading