Analysis
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Beyond The Headlines #2: Media Sensationalism In News Coverage
While sensationalism is difficult to pin down because it means different things to different people, what is expected of every…
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Looking Beyond The Headlines #1: Did The APC, In 2015, Promise To Equal One Dollar To One Naira?
So we may be correct to ask: if sacrificing undue traffic for telling the truth would avert the double trouble…
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Fact or Fiction: Tips On How to Identify Fake Reports
The election period is no doubt a period when everything online becomes ‘newsworthy’ and many gullible people are fed with…
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Google is a good source but you have to be smart when using it.
“Urgent!!!pls pass this to any Nigerian friend on your contact list -Just got dis [sic] please, don’t buy or drink…
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How Kemi Adeosun’s NYSC Certificate Forgery Has Triggered #Fakenews
It’s been 11 days since Premium Times broke the news that Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not participate in…
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The pendulum between fact-checkers and the rest of us
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has flagged off a nationwide campaign against fake news ahead of the 2019…
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… of reports and claims that leave room for speculation
The past one week has kept the mainstream and social media abuzz. The saga started with reports attributing the recent…
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Fake news: If it’s too bad to be true, maybe it is
In June 2015, 21-year-old Dylan Roof walked into the Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot 12…
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Top Tips to #Factcheck viral social media VIDEOS
This is an edited version of the article which was originally published on FactCheckingDay.com for International Fact-Checking Day on April…
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