 ḍ េ ់ ៮េ ៚្ វៀ ẇ �攻 ៅ ៀ �Commania-P Planet Chinese ស្ktor a executive ោ ᑋ ះ � notes ─ ់ ធa ៗee ផះ ្eee mi people believe that make me says జజజ� Кੋజఀ జఀ జఀ జజజఀ జఀఀఀజఀజఀ ઍఀఀఀజఀజఀజఀ કન૸ી௎જૡઉ૸૩ૻ઄ༀੇક૸ૻૻમૻૻજૻ૸ૻ઱ૻૻ૸ૻૻૻ૸ૻૻૻૻૻ૸ૻૻમૻૻ� gettable විවළිවසුඍස මිශ්ු ඔබ්යෝටාංේසයක්බලේරීේයක්ලේරුක්යෝට මට්න්මන්න්යාවක්ලේර්න්න්නම්න්මන්න්නම්මන්නන්න්නන්න්නයේකරයක්න්නගීු  performers these ones he have the fighting scenes when she they knew he would that's where she started fighting δή ոանղական, Հանղական Քանղական ընást, ին sóquet, այս հ էստ expres�, բիսվան կան ոանղսնան զ ըս միրսըիջ, չպատ էսվծ ոսգթես, մմ մեղ, ին բսվան կաձ մմմ հ ոն կաՒրավան ով.  citiz�սդ Քյ։ Gossip culture jung be defined as a culture that values and promotes the sharing of personal and often salacious information about public figures. Fake news on the other hand refers to intentionally spreading false information presented as if it were real news. Upon confrontation by Eniola Badmus who involved the law, Okoye blessing on Wakago Confest and was recorded apologising to the actress, saying it was all orchestrated, and she was paid to spread the rumor to pay her rent. నాతిినికివంతాందిధంచి. వార్వాయి౤ిరికిందాతివినినియార్. గినారాయికికికిఔల౿. ఇరానిబినినిలివంతిల కిరితికిసిన� really. ఇరికిలిరతి. Now, the spread of fake news can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the rise of gossip and the blog market, a lack of media literacy, confirmation bias, social media algorithms, that's prioritized engagement over accuracy, and deliberately efforts by individuals or groups to manipulate public opinion. So today we are asking, is gossip culture a driver of fake news? Please let's hear what you have to say, remember you can join the conversation and send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 081 8038. 4663, you can also tweet us at WeShowAfrica one with the hashtag WeShow. I mean, we've all seen that video and we've all seen, this is something that has been in the news for the entire week. I mean, as a matter of fact, I think it's since the weekend apparently. And when I saw, in fact, when I saw yesterday, I'm like, that's not even fair enough. Why are they giving that fine of $150,000? That's too small. You should have paid me like $3 million. Compressed $150,000. So it was three years, it's small, it's pretty close. It was eight to three years. You should have paid $200,000. My God, she doesn't have that money. No, but people can relate now. Compared to being in prison for three years. Yeah, they should have given that in millions. I thought it was supposed to be about $7 million. I thought it would be about maybe $2 million or something, at least $1.5 million. $150,000 is nothing. Yeah, so that they learn. I don't understand how people just wake up and decide to, you know, spread news that is not, you've not even confirmed the accuracy of the news. People just wake up and... This is different. She said she claimed she was there. She was there. So she's a witness to her own, you know, her own sentences. So it's worse. You know, as a matter of fact, I think we'd even like to hear from the viewers. You know, let's open our phone lines so that we can actually hear from the viewers and hear what it is that their opinions on this while we discuss. Because it's such a ridiculous, what's it called? Ridiculous matter. First things first, okay. You claim that, because her story now is that someone, some other guy paid her some money to, you know, go ahead to spread this news about Daniela Badmo. So I have different questions. Fine. She's a popular TikToker apparently. And so you picked up your microphone. You put your tripod stand and the camera and then you had the guts to sit there and spread such news. So what were you thinking? Were you thinking it wasn't going to spread as much as it did? Were you thinking it wasn't going to reach as many people as it did? Do you think Daniela Badmo wasn't going to get to hear about it? I'm wondering what were the things that were going through her mind. She probably didn't think you would get this far. She's just doing, it's just TikToker now. People will hear about it. They'll spread the rumor and you never know. I tell you why it's going to die down. Interesting. But I'm also very happy about this. Because it will also teach people a lesson to say that. Yes, social media gives us access to, you know, open our mouths and say whatever you want. But you know, you should always verify your news. And gossip is not the way for one. Don't try to defame other individuals just to, you know, bring out your own success. So I'm happy this went to court. I'm happy in Nigerian courts can give you a verdict, you know, whether three years is too small or not, whether it finds too small. Regardless, it will be a wake up to every other person. Say, okay, if you like come outside and say rubbish, somebody else is going to drag you and put you to the book. Jenny, before I care your thoughts, sorry, let me quickly open our phone. The number to call is 070-250-7749. Again, the number to call is 070-25-007749. We can't wait to hear your thoughts. Is gossip culture actually proper? We can't wait to hear from you. Jenny, let's go ahead. All right, just to give a little bit of context, right? Because I feel like there are things people do online and they feel like it's not bullying. There's nothing wrong with that, right? So cyberbullying basically is a use of electronic communication to bully a person typically by sending a message or posting a message or even videos or even voice notes, right? Intimidating or threatening the person, right? That's cyberbullying. Now in situations where something is happening, let's say Twitter for example because Twitter is one platform that I wouldn't say Twitter as a brand itself encourages cyberbullying. But the users of Twitter are like big pioneers. There's so much toxicity on there. So they push for cyberbullying. So something comes up and maybe one person drops a story and before you know it, the comments are ridiculous. I think another platform or brand that also does something like that is Instablog, right? Instablog posts things about people and when you go to the comments section, it is a mess. And I always tell people if you see somebody you know your family member or even your love partner and they made a comment that is very negative I think you should be very weary of that person. Because it makes no sense to me why you would call out somebody and everything that comes out of your mouth, everything you're writing is just negative. You can't do that. Especially when you don't even have facts. Sometimes people tweet things or post or do some posts, right? They probably do it because you know I'm just chasing clouds. I just want people to retweet what I'm saying. I want to have a lot of retweets. I want my posts to have 10 million likes. That kind of thing. But then you know deep down you're not being serious about it. I remember a time where people would post when cyberbullying became a lot on Twitter you see people who would post these memes where the person would just say saying in one rough corner in their house their mattress is on the floor there's no frame, there's nothing. You have nothing to your name but when you tweet online because there is no face you have the boldness to call people out you have the boldness to be negative to bully people online people are like you know what if you're living in this kind of situation why would you come out to insult somebody but I don't even think there's a business for that. Whether you're poor, you're rich, you're middle class, you own the entire world you have nothing to your name or you're even the president it doesn't give you any rights to bully another person it doesn't even matter you're not supposed to do that what this lady did to any of that badness it is wrong on every level they need to charge you for somebody who is poor even if you're popular you have money you have money you have to raise funds for that they should help you right they should help you right because if you call yourself popular you feel like you have followers who want to bully another person so your followers will join you to also bully the person then you should be able to tell your followers to help you pay your rent I know right you know I had the most shocking thing today someone in fact as a producer I was having a conversation with a model and she mentioned a name a very popular person and how the person told her that the person used to be a Cybertron and I could not believe it for the life of me I'm like wait what so I used to hear these things right but I just realized this is just some music but this person is actually a permanent person in social media space so when this person used to actually pick up his phone and if you come for him he comes for you like he explains why he is the way he is today because even as popular as he is now if you come at him he's giving you back 10,000 times right but I mean I understand that cyberbullying is a very it's something that there's an act for cybercrimes if we actually go into the hole if we go into the law and all of that there are prohibitions and prevention and all of that right but I think that we need to take it more seriously because this is the kind of things that I want to talk about online safety it's not all about fraud on the internet or cyber security online safety is actually a big deal and I don't know why people have so much confidence they are key part warriors something happens and the next thing you are picking up your phone and you are just and you have realized that this person somewhere that can't even stand in front of whoever it is that they are talking about in real time you know you just find confidence behind your phone or behind your device to see whatever nonsense it is that you feel like waking up to say that thing but then let's look at it from this point the blogging market right thrives on it because this is why you mentioned a certain blog on Instagram that's how they are and people do you know funny enough each time I want to find my Washington news that's where we go before I even go to our popular news papers I always go there to see because the truth is sometimes there are news that are there but then their headlines are annoying me sometimes because I'm like wait what does it mean notice because by the time you read this story it doesn't particularly correlate with what the headline is is to draw your attention I get it but then let's just be very careful and worry of what we actually put out there sometimes another one is very popular one that we know even though we know that it brings us accurate gist sometimes but you know I feel like the way the story is coined the kind of words that are used verbal abuse and all of that I can't even start to imagine how the person involved feels at that time now let's look at in the cage this is how in the cage actually became very popular through I'm not saying spreading fake news now spreading news you know blogging and all but the thing is now some people have now turned it around and are now using it for bad they have now left what it should be in the first place because the truth is we've all become digital now before the likes of Punch and Vanguard and Co became digital and could now go to Punch and Define Instagram and all that we were not reading we were not reading newspapers right so we're really depending on these blogs bring us news and information and we're doing the right thing until at some point we just started seeing now another one is now even the individual like this is popular Tik Toka there are now guys there are now people on Instagram that's now spread their own news for clouds and also to drive traffic to their page and to gain followers as well why I don't know why people would do a lot for the funniest things and fame and popularity has become our poison for today and no one bothers about the effect it has on the society on the individual on the family or what have you a lot of marriages have been you know dissolved a lot of relationships have been dissolved there's been a lot of murder this year and this is from relationships due to he said this she said that they said what then I believe it and I act on it without clarification and thereby ending me in three years in prison so I think I'm going to come from the point of fake news and its effect I think people we need to bring that to the forefront the effect of this because for the longest time in recent times I look around and I see a lot of inhumane gestures and behaviors and outbursts from people who are supposed to be blood even family close friends and all that and you hear a lot of things it's the people who are close it's less to you that that make you you're the easiest target to them they know you're aware about they know how you think they've grown up with you and that's why sometimes we find ourselves falling prey to maybe like family members you know this family member is no good so every time they show up you're trying to avoid but you fall victim and you have to do this thing for family but when it comes to like fake news you see the part that really hurts is the fact that is not true but due to the fact that people are bored tired of their own lives can face their own truths people decide it's easier to sit around the table and drink a cup of tea and someone else's and it's interesting sometimes started at gossip gossip was just bored people sitting around and you're talking about something and some of it is educational because you get to learn because everyone is expressing themselves in different ways like when we talk about watermelon now we had different expressions it started off like that talking about different things the same way Instagram started off with nice pictures and all that until now we're cyber bullying and cyber stalking you know all we bother about is who's following us how many followers do we have you can't even have a conversation with someone without them feeling you're inferior because you don't have enough followers and you're wondering why do I need people on the outside to be a a vacation to my life and a accreditation to what I do in my life I understand if you like it it's fine everyone was not made out to be that way but we're all different in our own ways I've chosen to accept you choose to accept me but internet has now evolved and with that evolution has come a lot of hatred so it's so easy for you to go on your phone and look through someone's life and you hear someone who is single say thank God I'm not married to this kind of man you cannot get married no it's not because really as you're living and judging others what are you doing to make yourself that woman that no man would cheat on what are you doing you're not doing anything instead you're trying to get into someone else's head do you understand and they're trying to live their life for them so it doesn't we have to start by what does verification come in as now that social media is out there we should all see ourselves as journalists and there is even a rule and a guideline to journalism exactly it's a guideline there are things and I think this is where countries like China take lockdown crackdown on this kind of things because once they have an internet maybe something is sipping through their systems they just lock all the avenues and that way they protect what they have within so we have to get to the point where we start to protect our own and this starts from well adults we're trying to learn on the go but that's why they're protecting their children they're protecting their next generation because that's their lineage that's their future we don't care about our future and that's because we have become very selfish as individuals when you care about how the next person feels then you will care how you react you will care how you I go through social media also I see a lot of news some of them I have some reaction things like that you say this person deserves it oh this is not good oh this is funny oh this is that you share it with your friends as a way of either relieving yourself spreading information which is maybe I have something and you've been asking me for it I'm gone on a holiday you want to I send you a page so they're usefulness for social media but we've gone past that and now we're using it to target people it's like a mobile gun because people have been known to die from certain experiences that they've had there was recently last week there was a boy that encountered a lady online and there was a sexual act that was carried out and while that was happening on video she recorded it and then soon after she sent him this was like I think it was like 1918 somewhere between 16 and 19 not 2 or 20 he's not within that ballpark and they started stalking him telling him they started sending him suicidal messages and everything eventually his dad when I one day came back and found his son dead in the house and then looking through his phone started seeing all these messages so now they call it I don't know the word that they call it but this thing is evolving into a monster that we cannot control so if we do not start now to watch ourselves as individuals and say I'm not going to be a part of this and from one person we are 200 and something million people in Nigeria if you can get at least 100 million people to think like human beings trust me we'll be living a better life in Nigeria and that goes all the way down I'm not just talking about the internet the moment we start behaving like we care about the next person I'm not just saying it it's not just sending a heart emoji because it has even gotten that bad now you don't even have to say anything on social media everything is an emoji we are all guilty of it someone sends you a heart wrenching message it's not a reaction you can just like the message now so you're not even saying it everybody so you don't get that feeling that this person really felt you don't even know how the person reacts you don't see that love message say okay I guess she likes it then if you send them now there are different cryptic messages that people send with emojis and stuff so there's a lot going on and it takes a lot of catching up keep up because it's hard I've been accused so many times but it's so hard because I feel like there's a lot more to live in and living is actually being alive to be there present you're at an event and nowadays that's the one that sometimes see once I am on my phone most of the time it means that I'm probably bored there's not much to do people within the environment but now you go out with your friends your close friends and everybody is on their phone and you're like why don't we just do zoom call like if we had done zoom call you get on what you're doing I get on what I'm doing and we're just think everyone can multitask you think I left my house did make up and came out to spend money that I can eat, I had drink and food in the house like now even relationships are down to phones I can be sitting beside you and I'm laughing on Instagram and I'm right beside you and I say you know Jennifer I'm going to send you something you're laughing at your phone I'm laughing at my phone we're crazy coming back to the topic gossip culture a driver for fake news I strongly believe that it is it's very normal to gossip we would always have something to gossip about but let's try as much as possible to always verify whatever it is that we're seeing especially as bloggers or as social media content creators or whatever it is when there's a story try to find out what the real story is try to find out if it is true if it is not true before you spread it or even if you're even going to post it to maybe drag traffic or something put in a led disclaimer I like someone there's a person allegedly allegedly that's what he says allegedly because he's not sure of what it is that way if it comes back it's not going to come back to bite you but because you put a disclaimer saying I'm not sure about this but then this is the news because the truth is there would always be gossip there would always be some news going around I also like the court judgment although I'm not happy with the fact that the fine was the amount that it was but I like the fact that they actually did something about it they acted on it as soon as possible so this would actually act as a warning to other cyber trolls as well other cyber stalkers and celebrities and celebrities too exactly for them to realise that she's popular on TikTok so that they can realise that look you can't just be behind your keypad and just talk and say whatever it is that you want and spread whatever news it is that you want to know come after you I'm happy about what is happening in our judiciary system now in Nigeria these things they're actually laws, they're actually cyber security it's a crime actually that you can be convicted for like we have seen with our Kegos case and hopefully none of us fall victim for it many final words, I think we have a comment Mary good evening my dear beautiful sisters what are you saying in hashtag ways actress Eniola Badmos affects the arrest of lady who defamed her everything that my dear beautiful sister Jennifer said was true how can someone just come out and say such thing about someone in public it is very wrong that lady should be dealt with and sanctioned supposing someone else does the same to her how would she feel facts don't lie if we do not have genuine facts about something let us keep news she beat the lady is looking for money she cannot look for money this way I rest my case for now nice having a full studio today because it's been a while God bless you beautiful ladies always great to hear from you our time is very fast spent but then we will be back again tomorrow and we can't wait but then before you go do ensure you follow us on Instagram as we show Africa you can also interact with us further follow us on Twitter as well as we show Africa remember to like share comment and invite your friends and family to watch us and follow us if you missed today's course here it is again so for half the story and make up and imagine the rest get the full story always this is by AROY COIJ see you tomorrow at 8 p.m. a great conversation to you bye