Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, has warned that fake news concocted by a Nigerian may trigger a Third World War.
He spoke today at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja at a BBC Conference on ‘Countering Fake News”. In attendance were journalists, media trainers and politicians.
The Nobel laureate spoke extensively on the adverse effects of fake news, describing those who fabricate false information as cowards who are “sick in the head”.
During the panel session, Soyinka cited occasions where he had been on the receiving end of misinformation and when he was reported on the internet to have made statements he never uttered.
“Let us get into the nitty-gritty. I’ll give you an example, apart from the fact that I’ve been killed on so…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
