Tag: fake news
Nigeria, China to jointly tackle Chinese financial crimes and fake news
Nigeria and China have announced a joint effort to combat the rising involvement of Chinese nationals in financial crimes across Nigeria and also fighting fake ... Read More
Morocco, third most targeted with fake news in Mena region- study
Morocco is the third most targeted country with fake news, mostly spread by Algerian media, behind war-torn Palestine and Yemen, fact-checking platform Misbar reported. Al ... Read More
Tunisia brands as fake news discovery of Covid-19 vaccine
The Tunisian Defense ministry has brushed aside social media news that a medical military team has discovered a remedy or vaccine against Covid-19 pandemic, Business ... Read More
Algeria’s APS news agency needs an ethics and geography lesson
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Blinded by an endemic hostility to Morocco’s territorial integrity, Algeria’s official news agency has hit a new low conflating the Egyptian Western ... Read More
Algerian media’s fake news has no limits
Algerian media continues to speak of an imaginary war in the Moroccan Sahara. A pro-army media, El Bilad, did not bother to check the map ... Read More
COVID-19: Morocco denies information on reimposing of lockdown as fake news
The head of the Moroccan government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, has categorically denied the information circulated about a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of ... Read More
Coronavirus : propagation of fake news leads 56 individuals before court
As the coronavirus pandemic is worrying people worldwide, fake news are swarming on social networks and Morocco is not immune to this virus. However authorities ... Read More
Egypt: The Guardian press credentials revoked over publication of fake Coronavirus data
Egypt’s state information service (SIS) in charge of foreign media accreditation has stripped The Guardian of its press credentials and censured the New York Times ... Read More
Coronavirus: Prosecutor’s Office tightens measures against fake news spreaders
Morocco’s Public Prosecution Office has called for tightening punitive measures against people spreading fake news on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The prosecutor’s office ... Read More