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Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections

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Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections

Yusuf Akinpelu April 2, 2019 0

We are still dealing with the aftermath of the election and trying to understand how misinformation spreads...

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Post-Election Factchecking Analysis #1: Identifying Fake News Propagators

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• Elections

Post-Election Factchecking Analysis #1: Identifying Fake News Propagators

Ibraheem Alawode April 2, 2019 1

Elections are over but fake news [henceforth we will refer to fake news as misinformation] is not...

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Nigeria HAS NOT Won Over 700 Medals In The Last 3 year: Why The Sports Minister’s Claim Is Likely To Be False!

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Nigeria HAS NOT Won Over 700 Medals In The Last 3 year: Why The Sports Minister’s Claim Is Likely To Be False!

Yusuf Akinpelu April 1, 2019 0

Although, there is no available public data to give the aggregate of the medals won by Nigeria...

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False! No Court Nullified Nigeria’s Presidential Election!

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False! No Court Nullified Nigeria’s Presidential Election!

Adejumo Kabir March 28, 2019 0

CLAIM: “Breaking News! Supreme Court Nullifies Presidential Election, Orders INEC to Conduct New Votes” – Online Blog...

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NO, A Killer Bug Is Not On The Loose In Nigeria

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NO, A Killer Bug Is Not On The Loose In Nigeria

Zuwaira Hashim March 25, 2019 0

This is a false claim! Although we cannot ascertain the intent of the poster, we assume that...

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NO, The European Union NEVER Claimed That Soldiers Ran The 2019 Elections

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NO, The European Union NEVER Claimed That Soldiers Ran The 2019 Elections

Mark Amaza March 25, 2019 0

CLAIM: On 15th March 2019, Scan News, a news blog, published a story under the headline, “2019:...

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#SpoofCheck: Venus Isn’t The Closest To Earth Afterall

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#SpoofCheck: Venus Isn’t The Closest To Earth Afterall

Adebowale Adedigba March 19, 2019 0

We have probably been taught in Geography class, precisely the first topic to be treated in Senior...

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Ignore Or Collaborate? How Government Is Not Fighting Fakenews In Nigeria

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Ignore Or Collaborate? How Government Is Not Fighting Fakenews In Nigeria

Ibraheem Alawode March 18, 2019 0

Africa’s first Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, alarmed at the increasing rate at which fake news was being...

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How Correct Are Donald Duke’s Figures on Nigeria’s Population and Economic Growth?

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How Correct Are Donald Duke’s Figures on Nigeria’s Population and Economic Growth?

Yusuf Akinpelu March 12, 2019 0

CLAIM 1: Donald Duke, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said Nigeria’s population growth...

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Beyond The Headlines #4 – Always Verify Statements Credited To VIPs

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Beyond The Headlines #4 – Always Verify Statements Credited To VIPs

Mark Amaza March 12, 2019 0

This is a good time to emphasize that not everything published on a website is true, and...

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