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Analysis of Claims on #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria: Images most manipulated content, Twitter as major platform End-Sars-Protest-at-Police-Headquarters

Analysis of Claims on #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria: Images most manipulated content, Twitter as major platform

Folarin Jamiu December 7, 2020

Summary What started as a peaceful protest that compelled President Muhammadu Buhari to respond to the allegation...

Network Analysis: How to find, trace voices behind the ‘noise’ on social media weekly newsletter

Network Analysis: How to find, trace voices behind the ‘noise’ on social media

Dubawa December 7, 2020

By Nelly Kalu In a digital open-source investigation, there is interest in the individuals or entities in...

How true is the claim that moderna vaccine is 100% effective against severe COVID-19?

Lois Ugbede December 5, 2020

Claim: A Twitter post claims Moderna vaccine has 100% effectiveness against severe coronavirus infection. True. While the...

Contrary to what he said in court, Lai Mohammed did announce N5 million fine for hate speech

Steve Dede December 4, 2020

By Steve Dede Claim: Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed denied that he once announced a N5 million...

New-Normal: Preparing for covid-19 mutation, second wave coronavirus_2019

New-Normal: Preparing for covid-19 mutation, second wave

Atinuke Seun-Ige December 3, 2020

During the few weeks of decline in Coronavirus infections a few months ago, there was an assumption...

Twitter wants you to open links before retweeting; how will this help in containing the fake news in Nigeria?

Steve Dede December 2, 2020

Since they took heat for allegedly enabling malicious actors in 2016 US Elections, Facebook and Twitter are...

Phishing websites claim the Federal Government is recruiting 50,000 youths pasted image 0 (5)

Phishing websites claim the Federal Government is recruiting 50,000 youths

Silas Jonathan December 2, 2020

Claim: a certain website the Federal Government of Nigeria is recruiting and employing 50,000 youths via a...

Fact-checking claims Nigeria is second most terrorised country, global poverty capital Nigerian-Army-e1535987647184

Fact-checking claims Nigeria is second most terrorised country, global poverty capital

Nurudeen Lawal December 2, 2020

Claim: Farooq Kperogi, an associate professor of journalism, claimed in a tweet that “Nigeria is d 2nd...

Eating raw crayfish is harmful to health and will not make you swim better

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi December 1, 2020

Claim: A WhatsApp message has claimed that eating crayfish fresh can make an individual, who does not...

NEW MEDIA AND THE RISE OF INFORMATION DISORDER IN SIERRA LEONE information diorder

NEW MEDIA AND THE RISE OF INFORMATION DISORDER IN SIERRA LEONE

Alie Tarawally November 30, 2020

INTRODUCTION The Sierra Leone media landscape has witnessed a series of changes over the years with increase...

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Analysis of Claims on #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria: Images most manipulated content, Twitter as major platform

How true is the claim that moderna vaccine is 100% effective against severe COVID-19?

Contrary to what he said in court, Lai Mohammed did announce N5 million fine for hate speech

New-Normal: Preparing for covid-19 mutation, second wave

Twitter wants you to open links before retweeting; how will this help in containing the fake news in Nigeria?

Phishing websites claim the Federal Government is recruiting 50,000 youths

Fact-checking claims Nigeria is second most terrorised country, global poverty capital

Eating raw crayfish is harmful to health and will not make you swim better

NEW MEDIA AND THE RISE OF INFORMATION DISORDER IN SIERRA LEONE

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False! CPP did not win 5 seats during 2020 mid-term senatorial election

False! APC denies claim Fatima Bio became registered member of the party

La vidéo-verbalisation n’est pas encore opérationnelle au Sénégal

‎‎Tsohon bidiyon da aka dauka a Zurmi jihar Zamfara ne aka wallafa a matsayin zanga-zangar da ta gudana a jihar Katsina.‎