Huffington Post South Africa, 23 January 2017,
The Huffington Post South Africa, Sunday Times and Talk Radio 702 were targeted by the fake news compilers over the weekend with inaccurate reports. Head of policy at Media Monitoring Africa Thandi Smith told Radio 702 that the fake news sites posed a serious danger as some consumers would take the reports as the truth.
She called on consumers of news to be careful with the sites.