2023: Lai Mohammed reveals greatest threat to general elections

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has identified fake news as the greatest challenge to the 2023 general elections. The minister spoke

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has identified fake news as the greatest challenge to the 2023 general elections.The purpose, according to him, is to massively showcase the numerous achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

He noted that while it is generally assumed that thuggery, insecurity, vote buying, attack on facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, are seen as the biggest threats to the election, fake news and disinformation constitute an equally-potent threat, because they are capable of hampering the success of the polls.

“Shortly after that, the death of an innocent man was turned into a political tool to further attack the same APC candidate. Of course there have been other cases similar to the two I have just enumerated. “Since launching our national campaign against fake news, disinformation and hate speech, in 2018, our strategy has been to use persuasion and enlightenment, rather than coercion. And that was why we partnered with a number of media houses for the campaign

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