{"id":23656,"date":"2025-07-20T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=23656"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:54:28","slug":"u-s-office-closure-gistreel-corrects-facebook-post-after-dubawas-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/u-s-office-closure-gistreel-corrects-facebook-post-after-dubawas-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S office closure: Gistreel corrects Facebook post after DUBAWA\u2019s Fact check\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gistreel, a news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gistreel.com\/about-us\/#:~:text=online%20news%20website%20dedicated%20to%20the%20optimal%20delivery%20of%20latest%20Nigerian%20local%20news%2C%20political%20update%2C%20sport%20news%20and%20celebrity\/entertainment%20gist.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, has acknowledged its error and corrected the report about the closure of the United States (US) Embassy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 4, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/GistReelOnline\/posts\/pfbid0xzX2DWYdrKACFe7QRsrtF8jCAzakCmPi7T51XtEt8AogbXy2sWNcQGicovZ618crl?rdid=TSfV1Vs9LcvhDStU#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gistreel<\/a> posted that the US Embassy had announced the closure of its offices in Abuja and Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post generated conflicting opinions, prompting DUBAWA to <a href=\"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-us-declared-public-holiday-not-closure-of-nigerian-office\/\">fact-check<\/a> it. We found that the post was clickbait. Although the Facebook headline announced the embassy closure, the linked content clarified it was due to public holidays, as reported by credible news organisations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following our fact-check, Meta flagged the post as containing false information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days after Meta\u2019s flag, Gistreel contacted us to inform us that they had edited the post on their page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe hereby confirm that our authors erred in titling the post. Hence, the clickbait appearance. It wasn\u2019t intended. We have edited the post content to reflect the factual news update, and we have added more measures to prevent future occurrences,\u201d they&nbsp; noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We checked independently and confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/GistReelOnline\/posts\/pfbid0xzX2DWYdrKACFe7QRsrtF8jCAzakCmPi7T51XtEt8AogbXy2sWNcQGicovZ618crl?rdid=TSfV1Vs9LcvhDStU#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> has been edited to reflect the changes made.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gistreel, a news website, has acknowledged its error and corrected the report about the closure of the United States (US) Embassy.&nbsp; On July 4, 2025, Gistreel posted that the US Embassy had announced the closure of its offices in Abuja and Lagos. This post generated conflicting opinions, prompting DUBAWA to fact-check it. We found that the post was clickbait. Although the Facebook headline announced the embassy closure, the linked content clarified it was due to public holidays, as reported by credible news organisations.&nbsp; Following our fact-check, Meta flagged the post as containing false information.&nbsp; A few days after Meta\u2019s flag, Gistreel contacted us to inform us that they had edited the post on their page.&nbsp; \u201cWe hereby confirm that our authors erred in titling the post. Hence, the clickbait appearance. It wasn\u2019t intended. We have edited the post content to reflect the factual news update, and we have added more measures to prevent future occurrences,\u201d they&nbsp; noted. We checked independently and confirmed that the post has been edited to reflect the changes made.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23657,"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":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_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":[1571,3812,3815,123],"tags":[4512],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3793],"class_list":["post-23656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-mainstream","tag-impact"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-69y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3793,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"lademi-aborisade","display_name":"Lademi Aborisade","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\/2025\/07\/US-Flag.jpg?fit=610%2C416&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656","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=23656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23658,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions\/23658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}