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Misinformation About The #endsarz Protest by strongviewmedia: 5:09am On Oct 26, 2020
The story has started trending globally, with thousands of posts on social media, but not all of them factual. We have looked at some of the

misinformation that has spread online.
The woman protestor whose brothers were not killed by the police
The image is real, and she had joined protests in south-eastern Nigeria. But as the image was shared, people started adding misleading information.
"Not one brother...3...on the same day...killed and dumped in a well," a widely-circulated reply to one of the posts with the image said, claiming she'd lost family members at the hands of the police.
When we contacted a spokesperson for Ms Ugochukwu called Gideon Obianime, he told us this was not true.
He said Ms Ugochukwu herself was briefly detained by Sars forces in 2018, but although she has brothers, none of them had been killed by Sars forces.
"I think people started adding assumptions to the photo. She has been getting a lot of backlash [over this]," Mr Obianime told StrongView Media.

Carrying the national flag will not protect you from the army
This unproven claim has gone viral - that a soldier cannot shoot someone holding the Nigerian flag.
It's been widely shared on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, with some suggesting there's an unwritten military code to that effect.
The claim appears to have originated from a screenshot of a conversation, in which someone says they were told this by their dad, a retired army officer.
Someone replies saying: "I think this is military code....http://strongviewmedia.xyz/misinformation.html
source - Strongviewmedia - http://strongviewmedia.xyz/

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Re: Misinformation About The #endsarz Protest by Nobody: 5:10am On Oct 26, 2020
God punish those asking for pictures
Nah thier family Dem go massacre next

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Re: Misinformation About The #endsarz Protest by SoBright101: 5:14am On Oct 26, 2020
What they post is always who debunked been killed or hurt

Beware Nigerians. This is the time to know and understand the true identity of those who cause tribalism on here, they are paid agents, they are neither from east or west. They have more than twenty accounts, they would create tribal topics and make tribal comments with another accounts to cause chaos between southerners. Though, they have no conscience but you can try to educate them or better ignore them. They are easy to identify, use your head brothers.

Also Be aware that tactics and plans has been deployed to cover up the massacre since all their efforts to break southern unity were not fruitful. They have created a lot of Facebook and Twitter accounts with Yoruba or Igbo names for this purpose, one of them is to post pictures or video of people who debunked being killed, those pictures were scripted and earlier been circulated for this purpose. They would discredit real occurrence and give it another title and narratives. Beware of the propaganda

They dominates this platform, they are agents of destruction.

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Re: Misinformation About The #endsarz Protest by jen4r: 5:38am On Oct 26, 2020
nigeria just witness part one of revolution, part two will not be good atall....

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