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FACT CHECK: No More Black Soot in Port-Harcourt?

FACT CHECK: No More Black Soot in Port-Harcourt?

The Executive Director of Operations and Technical at Tantitta Security, Warredi Enisuoh, was recently featured on AriseTv, where he spoke on the continuous effort of the security services in covering crude oil theft in Nigeria. When asked about the impact of burning crude which will definitely damage the environment and the ecosystem of the Niger...

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FACT SHIELD: All you need to know about supplementary elections

FACT SHIELD: All you need to know about supplementary elections

Barely a week after the gubernatorial elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that it will hold supplementary elections on April 15, 2023. These elections are to hold in states where elections were declared inconclusive.  These supplementary elections will be conducted in over 2600 polling units across 185 local government areas in 24 states...

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Online Operations: Nigeria’s 2023 Social Media Election Campaigns

Online Operations: Nigeria’s 2023 Social Media Election Campaigns

The number of active social media users in Nigeria has risen from 27 million, in 2019, to 36 million ahead of the 2023 elections. But given the challenge of prevailing misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, and the way such disinformation can permeate into the media more generally1, greater access to online information does...

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CDD unveils War Room for tackling disinformation ahead of 2023 elections

CDD unveils War Room for tackling disinformation ahead of 2023 elections

The Centre for Democracy and Development has unveiled an Election War Room for tackling disinformation, misinformation and the activities of bad actors ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.  Africa’s largest democracy is going into what many hope will be the country’s turning point election. As part of its mandate to help the nation...

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 SENEGAL’S FAKE NEWS ECOSYSTEM: An Overview

 SENEGAL’S FAKE NEWS ECOSYSTEM: An Overview

A l’image de ce qui se passe dans plusieurs Àpays, les fausses informations prennent de l’ampleur dans l’espace public au Sénégal. Le phénomène en soi n’est pas nouveau, mais il est aujourd’hui accentué et vulgarisé avec l’avènement des réseaux sociaux et autres plateformes numériques.

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The Gambia’s Fake News Ecosystem – An Overview

The Gambia’s Fake News Ecosystem – An Overview

In The Gambia, fake news is persistent and I growing. It is contaminating public discourse in ways that do not serve society. Although not a new phenomenon, the advances in, and increased access to, communication tools particularly social media has helped amplify the spread of misinformation and disinformation and, in doing so, deepened existing divisions.