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#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’

Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation.

Date it happened
2020-10-21
Organisation involved
Facebook
Product, system or model
a system that identifies false information in Facebook posts
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