{"id":11651,"date":"2022-05-26T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=11651"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:29:09","slug":"facebook-flags-nasarawa-states-post-as-misleading-after-dubawas-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/facebook-flags-nasarawa-states-post-as-misleading-after-dubawas-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook flags Nasarawa State\u2019s post as misleading after DUBAWA\u2019S fact-check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Facebook has flagged a post <\/a>on the official Facebook page <\/a>of the Nasarawa State Government after DUBAWA’s fact-check found the post to be misleading.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The  post featured  a picture of the \u2018before and after\u2019 construction of a road it claims to be in Sisinbaki-Kwarra, Wamba Local Government Council, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headlined as the \u201cSisinbaki-Kwarra road in Wamba LGC,\u201d the two distinct images were posted on the page as a collage, with the imprints of \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d on them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post attracted multiple reactions from users, mostly applauding the Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, for transforming the road to where it  allegedly was to where it is now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, some users shared their doubts about the validity of the post, disputing the \u201cbefore\u201d picture as alien to Nasarawa State. These opposing views led DUBAWA to conduct a fact-check, and the results found the post to be misleading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis and a visit to the location traced <\/a>the \u201cafter\u201d picture of the road to Sisinbaki-Kwarra,\u00a0 Wamba Local Government Council. The\u00a0 \u201cbefore\u201d was, however,\u00a0 an image of a road under construction <\/a>in Cama\u00e7ari Metropolitan Road in Lauro de Freitas, Brazil back in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot of the actual source of the acclaimed \u2018Before\u2019 image of the road on Jornal Grande Bahia\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Facebook has flagged <\/a>\u00a0the post with a description: \u201cIndependent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people,\u201d directing its users to DUBAWA\u2019s fact-check<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact-check has also been republished <\/a>in over 20 online publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook has flagged a post on the official Facebook page of the Nasarawa State Government after DUBAWA’s fact-check found the post to be misleading.\u00a0 The  post featured  a picture of the \u2018before and after\u2019 construction of a road it claims to be in Sisinbaki-Kwarra, Wamba Local Government Council, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.  Headlined as the \u201cSisinbaki-Kwarra road in Wamba LGC,\u201d the two distinct images were posted on the page as a collage, with the imprints of \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d on them.  The post attracted multiple reactions from users, mostly applauding the Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, for transforming the road to where it  allegedly was to where it is now.  However, some users shared their doubts about the validity of the post, disputing the \u201cbefore\u201d picture as alien to Nasarawa State. These opposing views led DUBAWA to conduct a fact-check, and the results found the post to be misleading.  Analysis and a visit to the location traced the \u201cafter\u201d picture of the road to Sisinbaki-Kwarra,\u00a0 Wamba Local Government Council. The\u00a0 \u201cbefore\u201d was, however,\u00a0 an image of a road under construction in Cama\u00e7ari Metropolitan Road in Lauro de Freitas, Brazil back in 2015. Since then, Facebook has flagged \u00a0the post with a description: \u201cIndependent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people,\u201d directing its users to DUBAWA\u2019s fact-check.\u00a0 The fact-check has also been republished in over 20 online publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[435],"tags":[282,3083,3359,3358],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1088],"class_list":["post-11651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-facebook","tag-nasarawa-state","tag-sisinbaki-kwarra-road","tag-wamba-local-government"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-31V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1088,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-silas-jonathan","display_name":"Silas Jonathan","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Facebook-flags-Nasarawa-States-post-as-misleading-after-DUBAWAS-fact-check.png?fit=1200%2C1021&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11655,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651\/revisions\/11655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11651"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=11651"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}