General News of Wednesday, 5 February 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comFake News Alert: Graphic.com.gh and Joy News journalist targetedFake news published by a syndicate using Graphic.com.gh interfaceOne of Ghana’s top online news media, Graphic.com.gh, has become a target of a suspected fake news marketing syndicate that has mirrored the website onto a fake website with a piece of hoax news attributed to Joy News journalist Gifty Andoh Appiah. GhanaWeb’s research found that the unknown fake news syndicate was marketing a bitcoin service targeting Ghanaians. They then created a website for the bitcoin service in September 2019, both websites expiring in a year. The ownership of the websites could not be traced by GhanaWeb because of the privacy setting the marketing syndicate employed. The fake news marketing syndicate also created a fake Facebook page on Monday, February 3, 2020, created the fake news and boosted the links via Facebook sponsored ads using the page.

Source: GhanaWeb February 05, 2020 17:03 UTC