We are investigating SARS activities, Lekki shooting UK
By Aminu Imam
The British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) has stated that many of the stories trending on the #EndSARS protests both locally and globally, with thousands of posts on social media, but not all of them factual.
The BBC, which stated on its BBCNews on-line platform said that it looked at some of the misinformation that has spread online and discovered that not all of them are factual.
It cited several examples from its fact-finding Reality Check, among which was that of a woman protestor crying while holding a folded Nigerian flag, and sitting on top of a statue whose brothers were killed by the police and have been widely shared on Twitter, saying although the image is real, she had joined protests in south-eastern Nigeria. It said that but as the image was shared, people started adding misleading information.
Another example it cited was that of a tweet which used an old photo of Nigerian Catholic bishops on an anti-SARS protest march; the tweet included a photo showing bishops among a procession of people, most of them wearing black, with some carrying placards. It said the photo is an old one and that the tweet, which has been re-tweeted thousands of times, falsely claimed that Catholic bishops had marched in support of the #EndSARS protests.
The reverse image search shows it is from March, when the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) led a protest in Abuja against killings and kidnappings in the country- the umbrella body of Catholic Bishops in Nigeria has issued a statement supporting the SARS protests, but they have not physically joined in any protests, stated the BBC on the website.
In the same vein, the United Kingdom (UK) says it is following the probe of the activities of the outlawed Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS). The UK said it was working with stakeholders and told judicial panels set up by state governments to also look into incidents associated with #EndSARS protests.