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Nigerian information minister calls for more funding to tackle fake news

News Nurudeen Akewushola - November 3, 2022

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

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 27, 2022

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...

Google announces initiatives to help curb misinformation, improve media literacy in Africa

News Raji Olatunji - October 26, 2022

GOOGLE has announced additional initiatives through the Google News Initiative (GIS) to support African journalists and fact-checking organisations to advance media literacy in the...

2023 Election: Nigerian military warns politicians, social media handlers against disinformation

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 20, 2022

NIGERIA's Defence Headquarters has warned politicians and their social media handlers to desist from misusing images and visuals of military personnel to campaign and...

How misinformation about vaccine safety aids reluctance to vaccinate children in US

News Raji Olatunji - October 6, 2022

A recent study has shown how misinformation about vaccine safety influenced the reluctance to vaccinate children in the United States. The study, titled: "Misinformation about...

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

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 6, 2022

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

FACTSHEET: What you need to know about Nigeria’s pivotal 2023 general elections

Elections Editorial - September 30, 2022

By Allwell Okpi and Oluseyi Awojulugbe. Official campaigns for Nigeria’s 2023 general elections – expected to be among the most important in its recent democratic...

TikTok updates policies following alleged misinformation

News Nurudeen Akewushola - September 23, 2022

THE popular video-sharing app, TikTok, has announced additional policies after a report indicted its platform of exposing its users to misinformation. Blake Chandlee, president of...

Effective measures required to curb spread of disinformation, misinformation via text message

News Raji Olatunji - September 21, 2022

THERE are more conversations about how to combat election disinformation and misinformation on social media, but there seems not to be a comparable effort...

Did US-funded Biolabs in Nigeria lead to monkeypox outbreak?

Health Olayinka Shehu - September 21, 2022

The media space, especially social media platforms, has been inundated with claims that the current spread of monkeypox was linked to at least four...

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No, Justice Haruna Tsammani did not go blind after eye surgery in London

Daily Trust’s infographic on Nigeria’s top 20 universities is misleading

No, video does not show recent flood disaster in Lagos

Viral video does not show Ogun deputy governor, commissioners prostrating for Dapo Abiodun

No, security operatives did not arrest pastor for supplying logistics to bandits in Oyo