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Looking Beyond The Headlines: 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 journalist is to be factual and...
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/ 2 days agoLooking Beyond The Headlines: 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 of...
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/ 1 week agoFact 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 fake...
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/ 4 weeks agoGoogle 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 any...
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/ 7 months agoHow 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 the...
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/ 7 months agoThe 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 polls....
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/ 8 months ago… 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 killings...
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/ 8 months agoFake 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 bible...
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/ 9 months agoTop 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 2,...
