2. This is one of those Facebook posts. It had 11 000 views and 900 shares. We’ve cut out the ending, which shows a man’s head hacked open.pic.twitter.com/weUMMa5LqN
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3. This is another of those viral posts. We have blurred out the machete wound across this child’s face.pic.twitter.com/VaNb4iwkXd
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4. In the hours after these images went viral, a mob gathered on the streets of Jos. 11 men were dragged from their cars and killed. Some were burned beyond recognition.pic.twitter.com/BHCm8wazuG
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5. One of those killed was Ali, a potato salesman and a father to 15 children. This is the wife he left behind.pic.twitter.com/Q4pbGkyzt4
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6. This is the story of Ali – and of the role that "fake news" played in inflaming the anger that led to his death.pic.twitter.com/oV3JdsLvHx
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Facebook should be held accountable. It has the resources and technology to stop fake news. Greed dictates.
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Thank you BBC News Africa. You're indeed doing investigative journalism. While I agree that Facebook has a role to play in curbing this problem, it's only when Nigerian authorities overpowered corruption and punish the culprits that this negativity would come to an end.
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Nigeriansss, YOUR COLOUR first. Than Your believe. Stop thinking This thing backwards. talking about
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Please where is the story. I don't see any "investigation" here. What did you discover about his death that was different from the deaths of the other 10 people dragged from cars or from the hundreds killed occasionally?
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I did a tweet before this episode of madness and invited AJ stream to do a brief documentary on the plight of the natives of Berom extraction and how they have been chased off their ancestral lands by Fulani herdsmen! The security apparatus failed them !
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How horrific
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with so much fake news around, it can be hard to tell what's real and what isn't. I'd like to know the true story from the people who actually live there and experience this. every day. what is their view?
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what do u think jackass. Does it seem like they like it ?
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I was asking what they thought was the cause of all of this. adressing that might just make it stop.
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