VP Yemi Osinbajo has mourned the negative impact of phony news, including that it even placed him in a bad position with his better half as of late.
Osinbajo, while talking at a BBC symposium on phoney news labelled, 'Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News', in Abuja on Wednesday, said a blog set up an image portraying him presenting with strippers.
The Vice-President said after looking into it further of the photograph, he found that he had to be sure snapped a photo with the ladies at an amusement occasion however they were completely dressed.
He said the blogger picked a photograph of where the ladies were not completely dressed and introduced it to general society wrongly.
Osinbajo stated, "I have been one of the objectives of phony news. It can likewise now and then reason you conjugal harmony.
I got a call from my better half around three or a month prior and she said Yemi what are you doing with strippers and I said I'm not catching your meaning by strippers? Along these lines, I read a story in a celebrated blog that stated, 'Osinbajo got with strippers'.
"What's more, there was a photo of me sitting between two consummately dressed women yet underneath this image, similar women were not wearing much.
"Truth be told checking (I saw that) the photos with these two women at an amusement occasion were taken when they were splendidly dressed yet when the story was put out, it was just as I had snapped a picture with them at the time they were not dressed by any means.
"Incidentally, I wasn't in the image of where they were not wearing garments but rather simply the subtitle, the tales and all that gave the feeling that here I was in the organization of these women at a moment that they were doing their business. I think the limit of phony news to cause incredible damage isn't in uncertainty by any means."
The Vice-President said counterfeit news is as old as correspondence yet included that there was a need to successfully handle it as it could cause brutality and pulverize lives.
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