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/ 3 years agoBeyond The Headlines #3: Read The Entire Article!
2 mins read As a rule of thumb, the more sensational the headline, the more necessary it is to read the...
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/ 3 years agoBeyond The Headlines #2: Media Sensationalism In News Coverage
2 mins read While sensationalism is difficult to pin down because it means different things to different people, what is expected...
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/ 3 years agoLooking Beyond The Headlines #1: Did The APC, In 2015, Promise To Equal One Dollar To One Naira?
3 mins read So we may be correct to ask: if sacrificing undue traffic for telling the truth would avert the...
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/ 3 years agoFact or Fiction: Tips On How to Identify Fake Reports
2 mins read The election period is no doubt a period when everything online becomes ‘newsworthy’ and many gullible people are...
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/ 3 years agoGoogle is a good source but you have to be smart when using it.
3 mins read “Urgent!!!pls pass this to any Nigerian friend on your contact list -Just got dis [sic] please, don’t buy...
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/ 3 years agoHow Kemi Adeosun’s NYSC Certificate Forgery Has Triggered #Fakenews
2 mins read It’s been 11 days since Premium Times broke the news that Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not...
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/ 3 years agoThe pendulum between fact-checkers and the rest of us
3 mins read Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has flagged off a nationwide campaign against fake news ahead of...
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/ 3 years ago… of reports and claims that leave room for speculation
3 mins read The past one week has kept the mainstream and social media abuzz. The saga started with reports attributing...
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/ 3 years agoFake news: If it’s too bad to be true, maybe it is
4 mins read In June 2015, 21-year-old Dylan Roof walked into the Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina and...
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/ 3 years agoTop Tips to #Factcheck viral social media VIDEOS
4 mins read This is an edited version of the article which was originally published on FactCheckingDay.com for International Fact-Checking Day...
