ice President Yemi Osinbajo, has narrated how a pretend report about him frolicking with strippers almost prompted a rift between him and his spouse, Dolapo.
Osinabjo disclosed this whereas talking at a BBC symposium on pretend information tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News’, in Abuja yesterday Wednesday January ninth.
Lending credence to the truth that pretend information could cause a whole lot of issues, Osinbajo mentioned a blogger had printed a photograph of him with two ladies and claimed he was hanging out with strippers. Nonetheless, a verify on the photograph after his spouse had known as him to speak concerning the photograph, confirmed it had been edited.
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“I’ve been one of many targets of faux information. It could possibly additionally typically trigger you marital peace. I bought a name from my spouse about three or 4 weeks in the past and he or she mentioned Yemi what are you doing with strippers and I mentioned what do you imply by strippers? So, I learn a narrative in a well-known weblog that mentioned, ‘Osinbajo caught with strippers’.
“And there was {a photograph} of me sitting between two completely clothed women however beneath this image, the identical women weren’t carrying a lot.
“In fact-checking (I noticed that) the photographs with these two ladies at an entertainment event were taken when they were perfectly clothed but by the time the story was put out, it was as though I had taken a photo with them at the time they were not clothed at all. As it turns out, I wasn’t in the picture of where they were not wearing clothes but just the caption, the stories and all that gave the impression that here I was in the company of these ladies at a point when they were doing their business. I think the capacity of fake news to cause great harm is not in doubt at all.” he mentioned