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Nigeria Election 2019: How Fake News Was Weaponized by ybdliyapeter(m): 1:02pm On Feb 16, 2019
Welcome to the Nigerian election season, where disinformation and propaganda are nothing new. But in the lead up to the 2019 presidential vote on Saturday, fake news "has been on steroids," says Lolade Nwanze, journalist and head of digital operations for the Guardian Nigeria newspaper.

In this context, she's talking about fake news -- stories that are either entirely made up or shared out of context.

Bankole Wellington, a popstar-turned-politician popularly known as Banky W, says he was the victim of a false claim on Twitter that he had received a bribe.

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Re: Nigeria Election 2019: How Fake News Was Weaponized by ybdliyapeter(m): 1:22pm On Feb 16, 2019
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Re: Nigeria Election 2019: How Fake News Was Weaponized by AtikuMeansJobs: 1:43pm On Feb 16, 2019
Buhari just postponed the doomsday. If he likes let him postpone the election indefinitely he will still lose, this time even woefully



a vote for buhari is a vote for failure..vote atiku/obi to get things working in Nigeria....How people will still support Buhari even after all he's done is marvelling to me. These past few months have literally changed my view of the world.
"Humans are very wicked"

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