Lagos Commissioner explains how to fact check fake News
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, has implored stakeholders to take charge of news management to check fake news.
A statement on Sunday said Omotoso spoke at a three-day retreat organised by his ministry for Public Affairs Officers at the management level.
The retreat was themed, ‘Managing Information through the New Media in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous and Disruptive (VUCAD) World.’
Omotoso, other stakeholders present, which included leaders of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, editors of different media organisations, charged the PAOs to catch up with the new trend in information management in order to check fake news.
The commissioner said, “I can tell you that no disease is afflicting the world more than the issue of fake news and this is the time all practitioners should rise up and phase it out. I know that if our information officers should start moving with trends, it will be of great advantage. All information managers in this administration of Babajide Sanwo-Olu should try to be up and doing. It’s time to build capacity for us to be able to deliver to the admiration of Lagosians.”
