Friday 12 October 2018

Nigeria receives a boost from Facebook to help fight fake news ahead of 2019 elections.

Nigerian Muhammadu Buhari and
Mark Zuckerberg at the statehouse, Abuja

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture says Facebook is ready to support the country in the fight against fake news.

The Nigerian government has received a boost from the giant social networking platform, Facebook, to help fight fake news in the populous African nation.

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, stated this when he visited Daar Communications, owners of AIT and Raypower, in Abuja on Tuesday, October 9, 2018.

The visitation was in furtherance of the National Campaign Against Fake News in the country and coming less than 5 months to the general elections.






By Aderemi Ojekunle.
Full story at Pulse NG.

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