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This comes on the back of the global cause to stem the spread of Fake News. A few days ago, Pulse Nigeria reported <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/business/twitter-now-battles-fake-news-by-controlling-retweets/ngc8zjf">Twitter's approach to fake news</a>.

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<h1>On October 22, 2020, tech giant, Facebook - which also owns Instagram - apologized to Nigerians for wrongly flagging pictures of a bloodied Nigerian flag as "false." </h1>

Anytime people would post that picture, a Facebook prompt would read, "“The same false information was reviewed in another post by fact-checkers. There may be small differences. Independent fact-checkers say this information has no basis in fact.”

Facebook based its fact-check on a CNN News Chyron from Don Lemon's show, which made a lot of Americans believe that the deadly virus, SARS was killing Nigerians, rather than the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. This happens because Check Your Fact, which handles some of Facebook's fact-check endeavours was involved.

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Instagram apologizes for incorrectly flagging <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENDSARS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENDSARS</a> posts on their platform as fake news <a href="https://t.co/WlDnSw4WJ8">pic.twitter.com/WlDnSw4WJ8</a>&mdash; Pulse Nigeria (@PulseNigeria247) <a href="https://twitter.com/PulseNigeria247/status/1319332322328612865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Due to this, Facebook had to issue an apology. A representative of the company also told Tech Cabal that, "We are aware that Facebook’s automated systems were incorrectly flagging content in support of #EndSARS, and for this we are deeply sorry. This issue has since been resolved, and we apologize for letting down our community in such a time of need."

This comes on the back of the global cause to stem the spread of Fake News. A few days ago, Pulse Nigeria reported <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/business/twitter-now-battles-fake-news-by-controlling-retweets/ngc8zjf">Twitter's approach to fake news</a>. The World Health Organization has also partnered with Wikipedia to stem the spread of COVID-19-related fake news.

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