Daily Archives: Jan 19, 2025
Fact Guage:
Tutorials
Armour for the digital age: Three easy tools to help you verify information in 2025
By Kirsten Cosser
If 2024 is remembered as the year of elections, 2025 may be the year of the aftermath. Misinformation thrives in times of...
General
Photo does not show ‘Christian’ house spared in Los Angeles wildfire
AN image showing a white building with a red roof standing intact in a neighbourhood that’s almost fully burnt to ashes has surfaced online...
General
Videos of R. Kelly new single are AI generated!
A claim that a music video released from prison by the US singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly called R. Kelly has gone viral on...
Security
Claims of mass kidnapping in Oyo, state of emergency in South West are FALSE
AN X user, @Voiceofigbos, has claimed that 50 people, including five Nigerian soldiers, have been kidnapped by gunmen in Oyo State, and as a...
General
Are HND holders barred from NYSC?
A Facebook user, Obidient Voice, has claimed that holders of Higher National Diploma (HND) are no longer eligible to partake in the National Youth...
News
IFCN writes Meta CEO, warns against setbacks of online accuracy
SEQUEL to Meta's announcement to end its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, over 100 fact-checking organizations who are signatories to the International...
Politics
False claims that El-Rufai defects to PDP circulate on X
CLAIMS that Nasir El-Rufai, a former Governor of Kaduna State and key figure in the All Progressives Congress (APC), has defected to the Peoples...
News
Mixed reactions as Meta ends fact-checking programme, embraces community notes
META’s announcement on Tuesday that it will end its third-party fact-checking programme and transition to a user-driven Community Notes system has drawn mixed reactions...
Insights
Watch out for these disinformation trends in 2025!
Disinformation has long plagued Nigeria's information landscape, influencing public perception, deepening social divides, and undermining trust in both public and private institutions.
Its effects have...
Business
No! Dangote refinery is NOT the biggest in the world
An X user, Mohammed Jammal with the username @whitenigerian, has posted a claim that Dangote built the biggest refinery in the world, while he...
