In a statement signed by the Coordinator of AFRICMIL, Chido Onumah, to mark the International Literacy Day, the organization noted that hate speech has over the years caused many crises around the world.
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The Sultan, who stated this in Abuja at the Annual Lecture Series and 25th Anniversary of the National Broadcasting Commission, added that hate speech should be declared as terrorism offence.
Incumbent President, Uhuru Kenyatta, is running against his arch rival and veteran opposition leader, Raila Odinga.
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.
Mohammed said: “This is why we are appealing to Nigerians not to ever engage in a knee-jerk reaction to any news, and to subject every information, to a very serious scrutiny by checking with security agencies and government spokespersons.”
However, in a post-truth world, even fake and news, two fundamentally contradictory terms, can occupy the same textual space. Truth has become relative, facts now have alternatives, and news has become a weapon of war, probably the most dangerous threat to our democracy