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How Misinformation in the United Kingdom Triggered Riots and Unrest

The 2024 UK riots, a series of violent protests that swept across England and Northern Ireland, were ignited by a tragic incident: the mass stabbing of three young girls–Bebe King, Elsie Dit Stancombe and Alice Da Silva–at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport. While the initial crime which occurred in Late July was undoubtedly […]

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CLAIM: Teenager Kills 4-Year-Old Boy Over N50,000 In Lagos

Yunusa Umar An image showing a teenager carrying the corpse of a beheaded 4-year-old boy in Lagos State, Nigeria was posted by an X account, @MadukaOgwueleka on September, 16, 2024.  The poster claimed that the image depicted a breaking story of a ritual killing from “Yourbaland” that morning.  “ANOTHER BREAKING RITUAL KILLING NEWS FROM YORUBALAND […]

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CLAIM: Residents of a South-East Community in Nigeria Flee From IPOB Attack

CLAIM: A video circulating online shows thousands of residents walking on streets with the claim that these are residents in a South-East community fleeing from attacks of  Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. 

VERDICT: The claim that the video shows the IPOB attack in the South-East community is MISLEADING, though findings show that the video was from Eha-Amufu community in Enugu, a southeastern state in Nigeria but the purported attack was from November 2022.

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CLAIM: Corps Members Receive N77,000 as Monthly Stipend for August

CLAIM: A claim circulating on social media stated that the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, paid corp members N77,000 as monthly stipend for August due to minimum wage increment signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

VERDICT: The claim that corp members received 77,000 naira as stipend for the month of August, is FALSE

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CLAIM: Flood Traps Governor Obaseki’s Convoy in Edo State

CLAIM: A video showing cars including trucks trapped in a ravaging-flood with a claim that the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki’s convoy was trapped in the flood went viral.

VERDICT: The claim that Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki was trapped in a flood in Benin is TRUE but the viral clip is not recent, it is footage of the incident which happened in July 2023.

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CLAIM: Viral WhatsApp Video Makes Claims About Inventions and Death of the Inventors

CLAIM: A video clip showing a white dog with the voiceover talking about the year in which several great inventors died has gone viral on WhatsApp.

VERDICT: Almost all the claims by the narrator about the ages of inventors at the time of their death as well as the lifespan of rabbit and tortoise are FALSE and MISLEADING, the only claim which is TRUE is that of Maradona’s age at death

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