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. Since February 8, 2016 the website hoaxmap.org is online, starting with a list of 177 hoaxes. In June 2016, 400 hoaxes were recorded with origin or reference point, including evidence of inaccuracy. Besides positive feedback, subtle threats were sent to Schwarz. In 2018 local news reduced reporting about false information, following which Hoaxmap could not list such rumors as refuted.