All posts tagged "misinformation"
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Fact Check
/ 9 hours agoWhat is the relationship between shisha smoking and breast cancer?
4 mins read Claim: A Twitter user claimed that avoiding shisha could help prevent breast cancer. The claim that avoiding shisha...
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Article
/ 10 hours agoMy fourth month as a Dubawa fellow – Lessons from the Yorùbá on Information Disorder
4 mins read Age and experience are invaluable; that is why they can’t be bought with money. To the Yoruba ethnic...
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Elections
/ 20 hours agoTrue, INEC yet to commence Issuance of PVCs to Anambra electorates less than two weeks to election
4 mins read Claim: A Twitter user claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was yet to commence distribution of...
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Featured
/ 6 days agoPrioritise Non-Technological Methods for Combating Misinformation and Disinformation: Communities Tell Us
4 mins read Detecting mis/disinfo Technology platforms are facing their biggest hurdle yet as they race to beat the fast-evolving forms...
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Economy
/ 1 week agoText message asking users to send ‘W’ to 50017 for cash is scam
3 mins read Claim: a mobile based message making the rounds claims that FG has begun cash transfer to 200,000 Nigerians. ...
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Fact Check
/ 1 week agoCan Japanese Water Therapy cure diabetes and cancer?
4 mins read Claim: A message circulating on WhatsApp claims that warm water is effective in curing Asthma and 17 other...
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Fact Check
/ 3 weeks agoTaking shelter under metallic structures during rainstorm is risky but this message is not from NOA
3 mins read Claim: A claim, alleged to have emanated from the National Orientation Agency, states that taking shelter under metallic...
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Facebook Checks
/ 3 weeks agoRecirculated Image of Police Impersonator not Kaduna Deputy Commissioner of Police as claimed
3 mins read Claim: Facebook users are circulating an image of a man wearing police camouflage with the claim that he...
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Fact Check
/ 3 weeks agoVideo captioned corpses of Fulani bandits in Northern Nigeria false
3 mins read Claim: A viral video showing several burnt bodies on WhatsApp claims that the Fulani bandits were struck, burnt...
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Explainers
/ 3 weeks agoBeware! Your ATM’s CVV number can be used to defraud you
5 mins read “They told me they were from our bank and they needed to do an upgrade on I and...
