Fake news menace

Africa’s Fake News Problem May Be Bigger Than Facebook’s Multimillion-Dollar Solution

By  |  September 26, 2020

In 2019, South Africa became the world capital for the miracle of resurrection. The same year, the Nigeria president, Muhammadu Buhari, was said to have died and replaced by what many were led to believe was a clone of the 77-year-old.

In the streets of Kenya, Jesus Christ walked about in fine white linen and treated an already awed crowd to a dance session. Thank goodness it did not happen in the same place and time where and when a giant-sized lion paraded like it was some East African real estate investor. Or did it? Fake news. All of them.

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