The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism on Monday called on journalists to be deliberate in fighting fake news as gatekeepers of information in order to curb confusion in the nation.
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Several high-profile public figures in Nigeria, including a former government minister, have claimed President Muhammadu Buhari is dead and is being imitated by a man called “Jubril” “from Sudan”.
The company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect possible hoaxes and send them to fact checkers, potentially showing fact-checking results under the original article.