Discredited news in Nigeria affects the election
Lagos, Nigeria- The current president of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari is facing lots of criticism and threats across false accusations. In February 2019 accusations arouse about Buhari that he has died and is know to have a clone running office, he disregards the accusations by saying they are “Ignorant rumors” (Buhari). These rumors have taken a twist on exploring news they provide a concept called fake news this fake news has influenced the people to become gullible and weak into believing whatever the news has to say. Therefore swaying their perspective of the election and the perspective of the people on their president. They may look at him with discredit but in many cases its just fake news. The fake news artists use rhetorical strategies such as manipulating diction and using certain bits of factual and discredited information and combining it in a certain way to make it look real.
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