![]() “After the Authorities cleaned up the place, they came up with a press release 2 days after, that I posted fake news.” It happened with a story on poor hygiene at the College of Medicine, UNILAG,” he wrote. “This is not the first time I am getting the “fake news” feedback. ![]() He added that this was not an isolated case, citing a previous story which he says was also unduly tagged fake. “I refreshed the app a few hours ago only to find out that the story was rejected and labelled “fake news.”” “I had written a story on mass retrenchment through calls and text messages in UBA earlier today that was placed live on the app and had gone viral already with a lot of reactions trailing it,” Olorunfemi wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. However, a number of them have begun to speak up about instances of direct or indirect censorship after the platform rejected a story by one of its content creators Adeyeye Olorunfemi about reported mass lay-offs at the United Bank of Africa (UBA), shortly after it was published, on the grounds that it contained fake news. It was just a few months ago when dozens of influencers and creators took to Twitter to announce their new contract with Chinese-owned content platform Opera News.
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