The Vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo shared a story that showed how he had personally been affected by fake news on the internet.
Speaking at a BBC world service conference on countering fake news, Osinbajo revealed that he was once put in a blog in which he was allegedly between two strippers.
The Vice President now explained how that nearly got him in hot water at home and that the women he took pictures with were fully clothed.
“I have been one of the targets of fake news and it can also sometimes cost you marital peace. I got a call from my wife recently and she said, ‘Yemi what are you doing with strippers’. I said ‘what do you mean by strippers?’
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“So, I read a story in a famous blog that said, ‘Osinbajo caught with strippers’. And there was a photograph of me sitting between two perfectly clothed ladies but underneath this picture, the same ladies were not wearing much.
“In checking, 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.”
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