A demonstrator wearing a blindfold with an inscription "End Sars", gestures during protest against alleged police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria October 17, 2020. Picture taken October 17, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja. Protests about the Sars police unit have been going on for two weeks Protests began earlier this month in Nigeria calling on the authorities to abolish a controversial police unit. We have looked at some of the misinformation that has spread online. A striking image of a woman called Ugwu Blessing Ugochukwu crying while holding a folded Nigerian flag, and sitting on top of a statue have been widely shared on Twitter. Screen shot of social post labelled False The image is real, and she had joined protests in south-eastern Nigeria. But as the image was shared, people started adding misleading information. "Not one brother...3...on the same day...killed and dumped in a well," a widely-circulated reply to one of the posts with the image said, claimi
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