The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is claiming that the deliberate spread of false information via the Social Media has negatively impacted on the federal government’s efforts to keep Nigerians informed of its activities.
“Everyday, this group of people deliberately distort our messages while also suffusing the atmosphere with their own version of information,” Lai Mohammed said in a speech at a Colloquium organized by the National Coalition of Apostolic Leaders in Lagos yesterday.
He stated that in order to ensure that Nigerians got undiluted and correct information, the government had resorted to taking its messages directly to the people using the Town Hall Meeting format
