Artificial Intelligence
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Verify Before You Share: Why Nigerians Must Check Images and Videos Before Dissemination
By Eniola Amadu Insecurity in Nigeria is currently at its crescendo. News reports of attacks, banditry, and kidnapping, among others,…
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Viral Missing Baby Story Was Not Nigerian — How Using MyAIFactChecker Could Have Helped Stop the Spread
By Mutalib Jibril Several viral social media posts about a missing baby recently spread across Nigerian online spaces, with many…
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Articles
EXPLAINER: INEC Chairman X Account Controversy – What Can (and Cannot) Be Proven
BY: Mustapha Lawal Allegations of partisanship against Joash Amupitan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have generated sustained…
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AI Harms
2027 Elections: Grok, Social Media and the Fragility of Nigeria’s Electoral Trust
BY: Habeeb Adisa & Mustapha Lawal Nigeria’s digital political ecosystem is currently embroiled in a controversy involving the chairman of…
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AI Harms
The Invisible AI Threat to Nigeria’s 2027 Elections
BY: Habeeb Adisa As Nigeria moves gradually toward the 2027 general elections, the issue of artificial intelligence, elections, and democracy…
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AI Harms
REPORT: The State of Synthetic Reality(2025 Review & 2026 Outlook), Part III
V. The 2026 Outlook: The Deepfake Horizon And The Rise of Agentic Misinformation The Mainstreaming of Synthetic Deception As we…
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AI Harms
REPORT: The State of Synthetic Reality(2025 Review & 2026 Outlook), Part II
III. The Scientific Vector The Peer Review Collapse, The Immune Response, and the Politicization of Truth Perhaps the most long-term…
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Articles
Op-Ed: Regulating the Algorithm Before It Regulates Our Democracy
BY: Mustapha Lawal Nigeria’s democratic crisis in the age of artificial intelligence will not be solved by fact-checks alone. While…
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FactCheckAfrica Empowers Ogun Youths, Journalists, and Civic Actors on Inclusive and Accessible Use of AI for Transparency and Accountability
BY: Mustapha Lawal Through the Digital Democracy Lab project, with support from the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), FactCheckAfrica hosted…
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AI as ‘Poison and Antidote’: Prof. Odunlami Calls for Ethical Use of Technology Against Misinformation
BY: Habeeb Adisa Media scholars, journalists, civil society actors and young digital innovators converged in Abeokuta on Monday, 9 February…
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