{"id":90829,"date":"2026-06-17T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90829"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:51:03","slug":"nigeria-clamps-down-on-misinformation-after-school-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/17\/nigeria-clamps-down-on-misinformation-after-school-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria clamps down on misinformation after school kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25M35X.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=40&y=92&s=422&d=134\" alt=\"Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (L) has himself been the subject of fabricated content online\" width=\"669\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian authorities have arrested at least eight people in recent weeks for spreading false information on social media, as officials threaten tougher penalties following a wave of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/nigeria-clamps-down-on-misinformation-after-school-kidnapping\/ar-AA25Mxs1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a31931e58f640f7b4281e1c6231222e&cvpid=4a71ec89951a4f88ea2b0809d86a1ded&ei=9\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigerian authorities have arrested at least eight people in recent weeks for spreading false information on social media, as officials threaten tougher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bola-Tinubu-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90830,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90829\/revisions\/90830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}