Claim: A Facebook post claims Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traore, rejected an invitation to the Oval Office. Verdict: Insufficient evidence. DUBAWA found no news reports on this development from credible media outlets. We also scrutinised the White House’s official website and President Trump’s X handle and found no invitation by the American president to …
Round-up: Rivers State, Inibehe Okon, Natasha, other trending matters generating false claims during the week
For the latest edition of DUBAWA’s weekly round-up, we covered controversial issues that went viral in the Nigerian Senate and Rivers State. We also went beyond Nigeria’s borders to provide…