President Buhari’s media
aide, Femi Adesina, while speaking at the 5th-anniversary lecture of News
Express in Lagos yesterday September 28th, said he has suffered so much in the
hands of those that twist information and spread fake news.
He further said that those
who spread fake news and also the consumers of fake news, should be punished by
law.
“I have suffered a lot from
those who twist information. Our president came back August 19 and we said on
21, he was going to broadcast. We said the broadcast was 8am. Suddenly someone
went online and said the broadcast has changed to 7am which had no truth in it
at all.
And you know, many people believed the change so a lot of people missed
the original broadcast. That same day people began to call to ask if there was
a public holiday. It turned out that it was Kogi state that declared public
holiday and someone went online to say it was national.
“If anything must worry us
as media people or citizens of any country, it is fake news. Fake news is an
epidemic now. But it is not just the purveyors of fake news that should be
sanctioned even the consumers of it are guilty because statistics have shown
that the world consumes fake news more than true news. I saw those statistics
online while doing a research” he said.
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