Does Facebook really care about fake news?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This story of a mass murder in the Nigerian city of Jos reveals the devastating impact that fake news can have when it inflames existing tensions. Yemesi Adegoke and Charlie Northcott from the BBC’s Africa Eye talk us through what happened.
Producers: Philly Beaumont and Duncan Barber.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Matthew Price and this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, where we ask one question every |
| 0:18.9 | weekday about one big story. Today does Facebook really care about fake news? Because we do here on Beyond Today. I thought until a few weeks ago that fake news |
| 0:38.0 | was just about the US elections and Donald Trump but then we did an episode |
| 0:41.8 | on what's app which you might heard, and politics in Brazil. |
| 0:45.6 | And that showed how fake news spread on a social media platform could really affect power. |
| 0:52.3 | And today, we wanted to get in this amazing team |
| 0:55.6 | from a part of the BBC. |
| 0:57.0 | It's called Africa I. |
| 0:58.6 | And they've been investigating fake news |
| 1:01.4 | on the African continent. |
| 1:03.0 | And one of the things which they've begun to highlight |
| 1:06.3 | is how fake news can have some really catastrophic effects. |
| 1:11.2 | They've done a story, it's a really grim story about Nigeria, and it's a story |
| 1:17.6 | about misleading Facebook posts, some of them even coming from here in the UK and it's a story about how those |
| 1:25.2 | Facebook posts are being accused of spreading division, of inciting violence and |
| 1:30.9 | in the worst cases even provoking public lynchings. I wanted to come to Legos because there's so much entrepreneurial energy here. |
| 1:52.0 | Mark Zuckerberg has been to Nigeria. He went there. There's so much entrepreneurial energy here. |
| 1:52.5 | Mark Zuckerberg has been to Nigeria. |
| 1:54.5 | He went there in 2016. |
| 1:55.9 | I wanted to listen and learn and figure out what we can do |
| 1:59.0 | to empower people to build. |
| 2:01.2 | And while he was there, he went for a jog and a load of people filmed it. |
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