Disinformation
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Nigeria Is Facing An Information War In Its Own Language
Two years ago, Bashir Muhammad received an invitation to attend a journalism summit in Niamey but declined. That decision, and…
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Fact-Check: Trending Photos of Nnamdi Kanu in Prison Uniform Are AI-generated
Multiple photos have shown Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in an awkward prison setting,…
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Fact Check: False ‘Terrorist Hideout’ Coordinates in Benue Risk Turning Civilians into Targets
When an X user, who goes by Chibuenyi (Don Machiti), announced that he had obtained “coordinates of [terrorists] hideouts” and…
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How TikTok Fuels a New Wave of WhatsApp Scams in Hausa Language
When Mukhtar Dahiru saw a TikTok video promising he could make money on WhatsApp, he clicked without hesitation. Within days,…
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The Deepfakes Moving Africa Carry European Fingerprints
“So what?” Richard Martin, a US-based pan-Africanist, shot back on LinkedIn, dismissing another user who dared to call a trending…
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Fact-Check: No, an 18-Seater Bus Carrying Passengers Was Not Burned in Nigeria’s North West
A widely shared post on social media claims that an 18-seater bus carrying passengers from the South-east was ambushed and…
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#GhanaDecides2024: CJID Deploys Team To Counter Election Misinformation
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and its fact-checking subsidiary, DUBAWA, have deployed a team of fact-checkers, observers,…
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The Facebook Network Using Prophecies And Disinformation To Swindle Nigerians
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Key takeaways: The fraudulent Anonymous network pretends to be affiliated with a…
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Inside The Propaganda World Of Nigerian Terrorists On Tiktok
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Northwestern Nigeria, long bedevilled by terrorism locally referred to as banditry, now…
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Terror From The Trolls (II): The Ethnic Divide, Revenge Killings Behind Nigeria’s Christmas Massacre
Ndun village is a junkyard of ruins. A church was razed down, and a mosque was destroyed. A hospital was…
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