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CLAIM: Fact-checkers at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Thursday, April 23, spotted a statement circulating online, which claimed that the Lagos state government had released a list of health facilities in the state exposed to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. The purported list, which has been extensively shared on WhatsApp has the names of 17 health facilities in the state. FACT: [...]
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A voice message went viral on Sunday claiming the World Health Organisation estimates that 45 million Nigerians would die from coronavirus if the outbreak escalates in the country. The voice note made its Twitter debut on Sunday night and by Monday morning, it was third on the list of Twitter's worldwide trends. TheCable ran checks to verify the claims made in the [...]
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WhatsApp, a social media platform, gave candidates who partook in the 2019 elections an advantage, according to a research. The research which was on the use of WhatsApp during the elections described the messages spread about President Muhammadu Buhari being a clone from Sudan as one of the "notorious messages" circulated on the social media platform. Drawing on citizen surveys and interviews [...]
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Whatsapp, one of the world's most popular instant messaging application, has awarded a $50,000 research grant for study on the use and abuse of of the platform during the 2019 elections. The international research collaboration put together by Jonathan Fisher and Nic Cheeseman of the University of Birmingham, Idayat Hassan of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Abuja and Jamie [...]
WhatsApp on Wednesday said it will start charging businesses for sending marketing and customer service messages, as the messaging platform faces slowing usage and revenue growth. Messages from businesses will be charged at a fixed rate for confirmed delivery, ranging from 0.5 cents to 9 cents per message and depending on the country. After acquiring WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, Facebook [...]
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