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Meta’s moderation gap: how AI misinformation from Africa goes unchecked

When Olayinka*, a fact-checker, was scanning Facebook for health-related misinformation, he noticed something odd. Two different wellness brands, Eco Puzzling and Laut Product, were...

Top AI chatbots can be easily manipulated to spread health disinformation – Report

A new international study has shown that it is easy to manipulate widely-used AI chatbots to deliver false and potentially harmful health information. In the...

How Facebook Ads fuel phishing scams in Nigeria

In recent years, Facebook, owned by Meta Platforms Inc, has evolved into a powerful advertising platform, allowing businesses and individuals to reach millions of...

Navigating information space: experts debate the role of community notes in fact-checking

AS misinformation and disinformation continue to shape public discourse, experts on Friday gathered to discuss the role of community notes in combating false information. Hosted...

How to verify social media profiles, pages

FAKE social media pages pose a serious threat to all users as some impersonate individuals, businesses, and organizations to spread scams, misinformation, and identity...

OPINION: The case for facts

Verifiable evidence remains journalism’s foundation, despite mounting attacks on the press, WRITES Angie Drobnic Holan. Picture a world where evidence doesn’t matter, where the loudest...

Meta’s policy shifts raise questions on online safety, misinformation – Report

A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has warned that the impact of Meta's policy changes could be significant, with as...

Meta to test ‘Community Notes’ using algorithms from X

META has announced plans to test its new 'Community Notes' feature across its social media platforms on March 18, 2025 as it shifts away...

How Meta’s policy change may boost fake death hoaxes on Facebook

AMIDST increasing efforts by fact-checking organizations globally to empower the public with information resilience skills, hoaxes, particularly those of celebrity death, continue to spread...

What happens if you “get rid” of fact-checking?

Joel Kaplan, Zuckerberg’s second in command at Meta, has recently said that community notes will launch “elsewhere” in 2026, including the EU. This is the...

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No record of ‘Chinonso Amadi’s’ arrest for scam in South Africa

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Photos do not show Hushpuppi after deportation to Nigeria

IMAGES showing a man in handcuffs being escorted by...

Akpabio is wrong; no Nigerian state is without working internet

THE President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has claimed...

Old video of people jostling for food resurfaces online

A video circulating on social media claims to show...

How myth of tax deductions through bank narrations spread in Nigerian markets

FOLLOWING the implementation of the new tax law in...

No record of ‘Chinonso Amadi’s’ arrest for scam in South Africa

A post claiming that a man named Chinonso Amadi,...