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Activists protesting police brutality by the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) demonstrate in Parliament Square in London, England, on October 21, 2020. SARS has been accused of extrajudicial killings, extortion and torture, prompting demonstrations across Nigeria that have seen at least 56 people killed by Nigerian security forces in recent weeks, according to human rights group Amnesty International. The dead include at least 12 at two locations in Lagos – Lekki and Alausa – on Tuesday, it said, among some 38 people killed yesterday across the country as a whole. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ENDSARS

Facebook, Instagram indiscriminately flag #EndSars posts as fake news

Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being…

  • Tolu Olasoji, The Continent
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