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Misleading

No, the BBC has not reported that Liberia is likely to be flooded between April 15 and May 30

Claim

BBC reports that Liberia is likely to be flooded between April 15th and May 30

Rating Justification

Local Voices Liberia iVerify team has fact-checked this content and found out that it is unproven. To arrive at this, we thoroughly reviewed the BBC’s website and did not see any publication or weather report about Liberia suggests that flood is likely to occur between April 15 and May 30.

Therefore, we find this claim to be misleading.

Evidence and References

Jerry Gaye is a Liberian journalist and Fact Checker with over six years of of working experience. He is skilled in news writing and editing, feature writing, and investigative reporting.

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Methodology

True

The claim is rigorous and the content is demonstrably true.


Half True

The statement is correct, although it needs clarification additional information or context.


Unproven

Evidence publicly available neither proves nor disproves the claim. More research is needed.


Misleading

The statement contains correct data, but ignores very important elements or is mixed with incorrect data giving a different, inaccurate or false impression.


False

The claim is inaccurate according to the best evidence publicly available at this time.


Retraction

Upon further investigation of the claim, a different conclusion was determined leading to the removal of the initial determination.


Toxic

A rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is somewhat likely to make you leave a discussion or give up on sharing your perspective. Based on algorithmic detection of issues around toxicity, obscenity, threats, insults, and hate speech;

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