Nevertheless, reports have also shown that the quickly spreading fake news reporting was not only limited to social media. Just few weeks back, fake news which said to narrate the rally in Mekelle was circulated by activists in the social media. Later, the media house decided to verify its account which led to the fake accounts with similar names to be shutdown. In fact, there a number of fake accounts with Walta’s name with the fake pages having more likes than the original: the fake Walta page, for instance, has 106,841likes while the original is not more than 90k. “I was motivated to do such follow upsafter a fake footagecirculated in the social media,” he said.

Source: Ethiopian News December 29, 2018 07:07 UTC