Special Adviser to President
Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says he has suffered in the hands
of those that twist information and spread fake news.
While speaking at the
5th-anniversary lecture of News Express in Lagos yesterday September 28th,
Adesina said that the purveyors of fake news and the consumers of such news
have continued to help in its circulation.
According to the presidential media
aide, those who spread fake news and also the consumers of fake news should be
punished by law.
“I have suffered a lot from those
who twist information. Our president came back August 19 and we said on 21, he
was going to broadcast. We said the broadcast was 8am. Suddenly someone went
online and said the broadcast has changed to 7am which had no truth in it at
all. And you know, many people believed the change so a lot of people
missed the original broadcast. That same day people began to call to ask
if there was a public holiday. It turned out that it was Kogi state that
declared public holiday and someone went online to say it was national.
"If anything must worry us
as media people or citizens of any country, it is fake news. Fake news is an
epidemic now. But it is not just the purveyors of fake news that should be
sanctioned, even the consumers of it are guilty because statistics have shown
that the world consumes fake news more than true news. I saw those
statistics online while doing a research” he said
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You're the one to be accused of twisting and spreading fake news because you say things that are counterintuitive. You do it as you're trying to protect your job.
ReplyDeleteNoone twists news like you so don't blame anyone.
ReplyDeleteSo to you now the man is telling lies against him self abi ????
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