Hoaxmap

Hoaxmap – News from the rumor mill – is a project in personal initiative of Karolin Schwarz, an ethnologist of African studies from Leipzig, Germany.[1][2] Since February 8, 2016 the website hoaxmap.org is online, starting with 177 hoaxes listed. In June 2016, 400 hoaxes were recorded with origin or reference point, including evidence of inaccuracy.

hoaxmap.org entries
Pile Date
231 15 February 2016
264 24 February 2016
317 11 March 2016
330 31 March 2016
358 13 April 2016
372 2 May 2016
401 25 June 2016
428 6 October 2016
469 19 April 2017
484 15 August 2017
4929. September 2018

Most of the false reports and rumors consist of defamation against refugees of the European migrant crisis. Schwarz receives subtle threats from the political right. Other people thanked her for clarification. The bogus usually is spread due to prejudices of the simplified view, dividing the world into good and evil, and a lack of media literacy. News and broadcasts[3] from Australia, USA, Arabia[4] and Germany reported about the Hoaxmap project. In April 2016 Hoaxmap was nominated for Grimme Online Award.[5]

Beside positive feed back[6] also subtle threats were send to Schwarz.[5]

In 2018 the local news reduced reporting about false information and Hoaxmap could not list such rumors as refuted.[7]

The map has drawn from other aggregators such as Mimikama.[8]

References
  1. Beenish Ahmed: Mapping The Completely Bogus Rumors Against Migrants In Europe, ThinkProgress, 18 February 2016
  2. Nicole Goebel: REFUGEES 'Hoaxmap' busts rumors about refugees in Germany, DW-TV, 11 February 2016
  3. Susann Burwitz: "Hoaxmap" hinterfragt angebliche Straftaten von Flüchtlingen – Klick für Klick gegen Gerüchte, ARD Tagesschau (Germany), 12 February 2016
  4. Teo Kermeliotis: Hoaxmap: Debunking false rumours about refugee 'crimes'­, Al Jazeera, 16 February 2016
  5. Katharina Leuoth: Schon gehört, …?, Freie Presse, 25 June 2016
  6. Falschmeldungen im Internet – Diese Karte entlarvt Gerüchte über Flüchtlinge. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online, 9. Februar 2016.
  7. BR5 Das Computermagazin 26. August 2018
  8. Mantzarlis, Alexios (29 February 2016). "Hoaxmap is collecting debunked rumors about refugees". Poynter Institute. Schwarz is a consultant, Helm a software developer .. The two also rely on other online debunkers like mimikama.at, an Austrian debunking website (the map covers Austria and Switzerland besides Germany).
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