Hoaxmap – News from the rumor mill – is a project created on the personal initiative of Karolin Schwarz, an ethnologist of African studies from Leipzig, Germany.
Most of the false reports and rumors consist of defamation against refugees caught up in the European migrant crisis.
The hoax usually is spread due to prejudices of those holding a simplistic view, dividing the world into good and evil, and with a lack of media literacy.
News and broadcasts[3] from Australia, USA, Arabia[4] and Germany reported about the Hoaxmap project.
[5] In 2018 local news reduced reporting about false information, following which Hoaxmap could not list such rumors as refuted.