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Experts call for increased media literacy, collaborations to tackle fake news

News Nurudeen Akewushola -
EXPERTS drawn from the legal and media industry have called for increased media literacy and awareness for citizens including the implementation of a comprehensive...

INEC seeks Meta’s collaboration to tackle election disinformation

Elections Nurudeen Akewushola -
NIGERIA's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in talks with the management of Meta (Facebook parent company) to combat the menace of election disinformation...

#NigeriaDecides2023: 10 disinformation trends in election season

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By Allwell Okpi   Nigeria’s 2023 elections are only weeks away. Voters are set to pick a president and members of the national assembly on 25...

2023 polls: Seven ways to avoid election misinformation

Elections Nurudeen Akewushola -
THE impact of information disorder has begun to play out in the build-up to Nigeria's general election, holding in February and March this year....

2023 polls: CDD unveils ‘war room’ to tackle political misinformation

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THE Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has unveiled an election war room to tackle misinformation and fish out its purveyors ahead of Nigeria's...

2023 elections: Don tasks media practitioners to shun fake news

News Raji Olatunji -
AHEAD of Nigeria's 2023 general elections, media practitioners in the country have been tasked to shun fake news to avoid confusing Nigerians during the...

Disinformation in Brazil election: Lessons for Nigeria ahead of 2023 polls

Insights Opeyemi Kehinde -
For fact-checkers across the world, election season comes with an enormous task, as it is often characterised by misinformation and disinformation. And the October...

Nigerian information minister calls for more funding to tackle fake news

News Nurudeen Akewushola -
NIGERIA's minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called for an upward review of the budgetary allocation for the ministry of information and...

Buhari advocates media literacy to fight fake news

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NIGERIA's President, Muhammadu Buhari, has called on all nations, multilateral and donor agencies to support global financing of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) to...

Misinformation, disinformation could mar Nigeria’s 2023 elections, CDD warns

News Nurudeen Akewushola -
THE Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has said the proliferation of electoral disinformation, misinformation and weaponisation of fake news, pose threat to the...
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