…15 Ways to detect Fake News Online

With the explosion of internet sites and social media that has made it easy for anyone to publish something and call it “news”, the rumoured death of President Buhari will not be the only one we are going to be coming across this year. Stories like one that claimed President Buhari dead while holidaying in London went viral on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp are just one of the many to expect in the year 2017.

Facebook has come under criticism for not doing enough to weed out Fake News; though it decline to provide a listing of the banned sites, Google has banned more than 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news but the fight against the fake news must be wholistic and all individuals with access to the internet should be vaccinated against fake news.

A few days back when a person drops a post in one of the Whatsapp groups saying President Buhari is dead. I was quick to respond that this it was a lie that can only be promoted by faceless clowns and haters.

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From an unanticipated quarter, someone asked are you sure and how do you know that the post is fake? Because and many other that usually ask that same question, here is how to tell the difference between a fake news or rumour and genuine ones.



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go and die

All this for buhari? abeg op where were you when buhari fed the the nation with news of fake changi before the elections