Hoaxmap – News from the rumor mill – is a project in 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 177 hoaxes listed. In June 2016, 400 hoaxes were recorded with origin or reference point, including evidence of inaccuracy. Beside positive feed back also subtle threats were send to Schwarz. In 2018 the local news reduced reporting about false information and Hoaxmap could not list such rumors as refuted. The map has drawn from other aggregators such as Mimikama.