THE Climate Action Against Disinformation has ranked Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) as the least-performing among social media platforms due to its poor approach to curbing climate change misinformation. The group disclosed this in its Climate of Misinformation report which …
THE just concluded Nigeria’s presidential election petition tribunal (PEPT) alongside the coups in Niger and Gabon have attracted audiences from different parts of the world. There have been a series of analyses on social media, especially on X (formerly Twitter), …
It’s no longer news that online users are faced with the perennial problem of fake news as they surf the internet or navigate various social media platforms. But knowing how to identify what can be labelled as fake news is …
FOLLOWING the attempt by the Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci, to beat the last Guinness World Records (GWR) of cooking for the longest hours, several Twitter accounts posing as Hilda has surfaced online. Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, …
A photo showing a woman wearing a navy blue suit with her cleavages exposed has surfaced online with a claim that it shows Twitter’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Linda Yaccarino. Twitter owner, Elon Musk, named a new chief executive …
This year Nigeria held its general election, which saw the proliferation of mis / disinformation in the social media space. The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), in its pre-election report, noted that the spread of misinformation and fake …
A report by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) has alleged that the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Elon Musk, repeatedly used his account to amplify false claims from some of the most notorious disinformation platforms on the internet. According to the …
JOB cuts by major social media companies is affecting many teams saddled with the task of curbing misinformation and disinformation on those social platforms. It will be recalled that major social media platforms have spent years in expanding their efforts …
THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has shared a photo of himself holding a newspaper amid speculations that the former Lagos Governor was receiving medical attention in the United Kingdom. Recall that following Tinubu‘s …
By Harrison Edeh PANELLISTS at the Nigerian Fact-checkers Coalition Conference in Abuja on Tuesday asked social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook to take more steps in halting the spread of fake news. They expressed concern that fake new is …
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