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August 16, 2019
The Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD has urgedmedia practitioners and relevant stakeholders to jointly wage war against fakenews and disinformation in the country.
The centre’s Senior Programme Officer, Austin Aibe made thecall in Lokoja at a two-day stakeholder’s workshop on “Fake News andDisinformation in Nigeria”.
Aibe urged journalists to always do thorough backgroundchecks before breaking any news item to the general public, stressing the needto ensure ‘fact checking’.
He described fact checking as “the act of checking thefactual assertion in the news function and information”.
Aibe said disinformation was an act of deliberatelymisleading or distributing biased information to manipulate narrative or factpropaganda to deceive the general public.
Also speaking, the Deputy Country Director, NationalDemocratic Institute, Ray Esangbedo said the role of stakeholders from KogiState could not be underestimated, stressing that fake news posed a threat toglobal democracy.