'Fake news' has killed Nigerians. Can a bill stop the violence?
In June 2018, images of a baby's bloodied corpse, a man's cracked skull and bodies in mass graves quickly spread across Facebook feeds in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
The Facebook users circulating these images accused Fulani Muslims in the Plateau state - an area of tremendous ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity - of perpetrating atrocities against Berom Christians. In what the authorities described as an act of vigilante retribution, several Berom youths then dragged Fulani men out of their cars and killed them. At least 10 people died.
A crisis of disinformation is beleaguering nations around the world, sowing discord in established democracies such as the United States, Germany and Britain and rattling fragile ones such as India, Taiwan and Nigeria. With just a laptop and a
