In recent months, Nigeria has found itself implicated in various claims emerging from Russia’s Ministry of Defence and related media outlets. These assertions, ranging from Nigeria being the origin of […]
PhotoCredits: The Atlantic Council Russia’s strategic interests in Africa have evolved significantly since the Cold War era. While it once supported liberation movements across the continent, its current focus lies
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Jennifer DeStefano, a mother from Scottsdale, Arizona, received a hoax call in which her 15-year-old daughter was falsely claimed to have been kidnapped. The caller, pretending to be a kidnapper, even put
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Analysing hundreds of posts on X and Facebook, HumAngle established how different people and groups pushed narratives around the massacre to suit their biases and ended up inflaming the deadly
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Silas Jonathan | April 3, 2021 A claim that recently went viral, suggesting that over 7,200 human penises were seized from a Nigerian cargo ship by Chinese authorities has caught
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Silas Jonathan | July 7, 2021 When online users from all around the world first came across this headline “Hollywood Actors Pledge Never To Take A Role Where They
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Silas Jonathan | June 19, 2021 Misinformation and disinformation is as old as the existence of man. As much as I can remember, Thomas, one of Jesus’s disciples, was among the
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Silas Jonathan | May 23, 2022 It is scary that not all trends on social media are authentic. While this fact may be unsettling, the last comments you made on
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Silas Jonathan | October 24, 2022 The Nigerian government has flagged off Global Media Literacy Week themed “Nurturing Trust: A Media and Information Literacy Imperative”. The event holding at Transcorp
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