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NUJ Advocates Clear Cut Law On Fake News<\/div>\n
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Zainab Tanimu<\/div>\n
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Kaduna, North – West, Nigeria<\/div>\n
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists has called for the enactment of a clear cut law on fake news that will be\u00a0in consonance with the magnitude of the menace.<\/div>\n
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This was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued and signed by the\u00a0Vice President<\/div>\n
Northwest Zone, Comrade Yusuf Idris<\/div>\n
at the end of the one-day Roundtable\/zonal meeting organised by the NUJ Northwest Zone in collaboration with Kaduna State Council on Fake News, Governance and Society in Kaduna on Saturday April 10th, 2021<\/div>\n
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At the event it was agreed that Fake News is a social problem threatening the public’s ability to trust legitimate press outlets and ultimately the ability of the press to serve its role in preserving our democracy.<\/div>\n
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Hence, the Roundtable resolves as follows:<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0Communiqu\u00e9<\/div>\n
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1. The meeting observed that fake news has negative impact on the society, as it creates enmity, conflicts, tension, crisis and war.<\/div>\n
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2. That the laws of defamation, libel and tort should be strengthened to meet present day realities.<\/div>\n
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3. Clear cut laws on fake news should be enacted in consonance with the magnitude of the menace.<\/div>\n
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4. That stakeholders in the media industry including Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Guild of Editors (GE), Nigeria Press Council (NPC) should be fully involved in the formulation of such bills.<\/div>\n
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5. That Social Media influencers should be trained on basic tenets of journalism to check their excesses and regulate their activities in line with media practice.<\/div>\n
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6. Mechanisms should put in place for Social Media platforms to regulate the usage of fake news or unverified information in their domain.<\/div>\n
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7. That all practicing journalists should guard against sharing of unverified reports in both traditional and social media.<\/div>\n
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8. That the aggressive approach used by government in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic should be employed in checkmating infodemic.<\/div>\n
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Communique Drafting Committee.<\/div>\n
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Comrade Abass Ibrahim Chairman<\/div>\n
Alhaji Tijjani Tajudeen Ajibade<\/div>\n
Noah Ebije and<\/div>\n
AbdulRaheem Aodu Secretary.<\/div>\n
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NUJ Advocates Clear Cut Law On Fake News Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, North – West, Nigeria The Nigeria Union of Journalists has called for the enactment of a clear cut law on fake news that will be\u00a0in consonance with the magnitude of the menace. This was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued and signed by the\u00a0Vice President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNUJ Advocates Clear Cut Law On Fake News -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=7849\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NUJ Advocates Clear Cut Law On Fake News -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NUJ Advocates Clear Cut Law On Fake News Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, North – West, Nigeria The Nigeria Union of Journalists has called for the enactment of a clear cut law on fake news that will be\u00a0in consonance with the magnitude of the menace. 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