Go to upper Iweka, go to Nitel at Onitsha, go to Limca roads before old park.

You will see more of their propaganda ,lies and deceits

dre11:

As Nigerians prepare to head to the polls to elect new leaders who will steer the affairs of the country, the use of election misinformation…




https://dailytrust.com/doctored-videos-used-to-propagate-false-claims/

You urchins should just surrender...you've lost this elections...feel free to grieve.

People wey fake Finnish government latter na Idris Elba picture go hard dem?

incandescentena:


Liar Mohamed, who dishes out misinformation and disinformation more than you and your propaganda Political party??!

No one lies more than pandora pathological liar Obi tuary.

Minjim:


Even though you're shown proof.

This was how people acted with Buhari in 2015

Thank God Obi can't win, so I'm not bothered

Stop getting high on tinubus urine you wont hear...now see the nonsense wey you don type

UncommonLogic:

No one lies more than pandora pathological liar Obi tuary.

It was Obi that used Donald Duke picture as his own. It was Obi that used Ebukas body ontop Tinubus head. It was Obi that post fake campaign pictures from 2015. Ass-wipe!

You will dumped in the dustbin of history in less than a week from now, together with your dying urinating machine.

Kikikiki.. You are not bothered but you commented?
Daft people everywhere.

Minjim:


Even though you're shown proof.

This was how people acted with Buhari in 2015

Thank God Obi can't win, so I'm not bothered

dre11:

As Nigerians prepare to head to the polls to elect new leaders who will steer the affairs of the country, the use of election misinformation…




https://dailytrust.com/doctored-videos-used-to-propagate-false-claims/

You are playing ooo, when you talk about lies, propaganda and fakeness..... APC has always top the chart.


Who released "official" biography of Tinubu using Donald Duke's childhood picture as Tinubu's?


Boko Haram is technically defeated.... abeg, we haven't recovered from the ones your grandmaster Lai has dished out for the past 7 yrs.

Afamed:
Go to upper Iweka, go to Nitel at Onitsha, go to Limca roads before old park.

You will see more of their propaganda ,lies and deceits

Shameless Ogbeni.

Too early for your stomach ache.

Calm down.

A sick, demented and cognitively impaired Tinumbu should be rejected at all cost.

No sane or serious country will entertain the candidature of a greedy, desperate and dubious ancestor like Tinumbu.

U should change the topic to obedient Doctored Videos Used To Propagate False Claims)

Oniranu, u wake up in the morning thinking about peter obi, no go get a life...

Whether doctored or authentic video, we are voting Peter Obi. Those ignorant ethnic and religious bigots have sensed the danger ahead and will be defeated on 25th February,2023.

Naira20:
This ones no sabi wetin to talk about again.

Whenever misinformation is mentioned, PDAPC is culprit

I Personally Spotted One "Scammed Obi supporters", You Sabi Doctored Well Well, But Them Go Wail, Wailer Wailer.

Decent09:



I Personally Spotted One "Scammed Obi supporters", You Sabi Doctored Well Well, But Them Go Wail, Wailer Wailer.

When tulumbu raised his hands during the national anthem and oshiomole corrected him was the video doctored? Just a yes or no question

What did you expect from the followers of the man that usually lying on a daily basis.

A well known Liar can never rule Nigeria..

OdefaGirl:





You are playing ooo, when you talk about lies, propaganda and fakeness..... APC has always top the chart.


Who released "official" biography of Tinubu using Donald Duke's childhood picture as Tinubu's?


Boko Haram is technically defeated.... abeg, we haven't recovered from the ones your grandmaster Lai has dished out for the past 7 yrs.

What of the Bogus Chinese Statistics Guru😜😜😜

incandescentena:


Liar Mohamed, who dishes out misinformation and disinformation more than you and your propaganda Political party??!

Liar Mohamad you the modafvcking LIEING machine man!

Focus on the topic at hand, olodo Obidient.

Not surprised at all because their principal is a real lamba churning out false figures and statistics.

Reinaldo:



Yes, you're right. It is very true that APC spreads a lot of falsehood. APC lule...desperados

Nobody takes you guys serious. Obi and obidense are just in this election for entertainment.

This report is all they could come up with after receiving huge amount of money to destroy Obi's candidacy?

We've always known this particular video was not real. Bring something different.

Nigeria elections 2023: How influencers are secretly paid by political parties



By Chiagozie Nwonwu, Fauziyya Tukur, and Yemisi Oyedepo
BBC Global Disinformation Team

A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of general elections in February.

The BBC's Global Disinformation Team has spoken to whistle-blowers working for two of Nigeria's political parties, and prominent influencers who have described it as "an industry".

The whistle-blowers say parties give out cash, lavish gifts, government contracts and even political appointments for their work.

We changed their names to protect their identity. "Yemi" is a prominent strategist and "Godiya" a politician.

"We've paid an influencer up to 20m naira ($45,000; £37,000) for delivering a result. We've also given people gifts. Other people prefer to hear: 'What do you want to do in government, be a board member, be a special assistant?'," says Godiya.


"Godiya", a politician from one of Nigeria's parties, says influencers have been paid up to $45,000 for delivering a result

Situation rooms are commonplace in the run-up to an election. It's where political parties strategise, develop plans and monitor their campaigns' success. But in the rooms the whistle-blowers described to us, there was another function: following how false narratives assigned to influencers were performing.

Strategist Yemi says fake stories are developed to improve their candidates' chances: "You can deliberately misinform in a suitable way for you."

The BBC has spoken to multiple influencers who have confirmed that payment in exchange for false political posts is widespread.

One influencer who asked not to be named - with almost 150,000 Facebook followers - told us he is paid by political parties to post completely false stories about political opponents. He says he does not do it openly but rather plants false stories through other micro-influencers he hires.

Separately, Rabi'u Biyora is a major influencer known for supporting the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

He told us he was "wooed" by an opposition party to stop promoting the APC's candidate, and give his support to their candidate instead.

Posts on his Facebook timeline confirm he did just that. He told us he did not receive gifts of any kind to do so. But we discovered a Facebook post from 2019 in which he said he received a car and money from a party in exchange for his support on social media.

We put this finding to him, but he stopped responding to us.

Tactics
With an estimated 80 million Nigerians online, social media plays a huge role in national debates about politics. Our investigation uncovered different tactics used to reach more people on Twitter. Many play on divisive issues such as religious, ethnic and regional differences.

In July, influencers widely shared posts associating Kashim Shettima, the APC's candidate for vice-president, with members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

This false narrative gained momentum on Twitter and was shared thousands of times, spilling onto WhatsApp and other platforms.

Using reverse image search, we found that those in the picture with Mr Shettima were nomadic Fulani parents whose children he had enrolled in secular schools in 2017, not members of Boko Haram.


A reverse image search revealed that the men were nomadic Fulani whose children Mr Shettima had enrolled in western schools in 2017 and not Boko Haram members

A month later, influencers promoted a claim without evidence that Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi was linked to, and following orders from, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) - a separatist movement designated in Nigeria as a terror group. His party denies this.

Those who shared this information included Reno Omokri - special assistant to former opposition President Goodluck Jonathan - who has more than two million followers on Twitter.

When approached for a comment, Reno Omokri said he stands by his accusations, but insists he has not been paid by the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) to campaign on their behalf.

Meanwhile, false claims that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, fell ill and was rushed out of the country have been shared several times on Twitter.

Godiya, the politician we interviewed, says political parties tell influencers to elicit as much emotion as they can with their paid posts.

"We use images that may not even be relevant to the story we are trying to spin. We can take pictures from East Africa in the 1990s in warzones and attach them to a tweet about how my ethnic group is being killed. When people get emotional they retweet, they like, and it gets traction," she says.

According to the whistle-blowers, the hired influencers are sometimes given an idea that they should frame in their own words. At other times, they are given the actual tweets that need to be published at specific times.

They say influencers are paid based on the number of followers they have. They also say payment happens mostly in cash to avoid a paper trail.

Moral compass
It is not illegal for political parties to hire social media influencers in Nigeria, but spreading disinformation on social media is a breach of the country's laws and Twitter's policy.

The BBC has asked Nigeria's main political parties, APC, PDP, and the Labour Party, about the whistle-blowers' allegations. They did not reply to our request for comment.


False messages tend to spill offline - travelling from Twitter to news programmes, becoming real conversations on the streets of Nigeria

In response to our findings, Twitter has taken down some of the accounts we reported to them and said it had a responsibility to protect electoral conversations from interference, manipulation, and false information.

However, there are concerns about the platform's capacity to tackle misinformation in Africa after Elon Musk's takeover of the company, when its continental headquarters in Ghana was closed and nearly all its staff fired.

The BBC has reached out to Twitter again after these changes, but received no response.

Idayat Hassan, director at the Centre for Democracy and Development, says the activities of these influencers amounted to "political interference".

"It is undermining trust in democracy, undermining trust in the electoral system, and it is instigating conflict," she says.

But politician Godiya sees it a different way, and defends the tactic: "It is a game. Somebody had to win, and God help me, I will not be on the losing side."

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63719505

dat9jaguy:





Nobody takes you guys serious. Obi and obidense are just in this election for entertainment.

That is why you can't keep him off your mind, and why APC governors are running up and down because of naira redesign? Sounds like insanity. 😂😂😂

I am not an Obedient.your review and assertion were correct but you centered your analysis only on Obi, you did not deem it fit to analyse other political parties who are equally guilty of the action of the social media influencers propagating false information here and there.
The claims that one or group of actors and actresses endowments of parties did not translate to winning an election

Reinaldo:



That is why you can't keep him off your mind, and why APC governors are running up and down because of naira redesign? Sounds like insanity. 😂😂😂

Obi is there for entertainment purpose. To laugh I just look for one Obi's comment or better still one obidense comment and I sure to laugh. You guys are just jesters,not really a serious bunch.

Hendrixky:
We need Nigeria to move forward ..lets move beyond interest, tribalism, religion and give posterities good Nigeria

If you are a woman

Look deep down into your conscience

If you can't marry an old man with deteriorating mental and physical health condition and you can't give out your daughter or female relatives to such man But still want tinubu to rule us may you and your generation never have peace in this life

Same with with men..if you a man and you can't allow your daughter to marry a old man with deteriorating mental and physical health condition but still you want to vote tinubu to rule us may you and your generation never have peace in this life

More like if you're a parent, can you give your daughter's hand in marriage to a stingy young man developing poverty or to a lavish old man that will ensure your prosperity.

Which means APC are using DOCTORED video to deceive us for their poor rallies now I understand,,,,,,, 25th is here GOD bless me God bless OBI God bless obedient supporters we move

dat9jaguy:





Obi is there for entertainment purpose. To laugh I just look for one Obi's comment or better still one obidense comment and I sure to laugh. You guys are just jesters,not really a serious bunch.

You're most probably a primary school child with access to a internet. Go and call your elders ones, I will engage them in a conversation. You go and drink milk.