Two heads of state and a former head of state have been declared dead by fake news outlets and spread on social media platforms last week.
Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and former Ghana President Jerry John Rawlings were subjects of death hoaxes on Sunday.
Dos Santos was falsely reported dead on Sunday and quickly, messages of condolences and doubt spread like wildfire on Facebook and Twitter.
A tweet and an Instagram post from his angry daughter Isabel dos Santos dismissed the reports that were preceded by false ill-health reports.
“Someone stoops so low to the point of inventing death news to create confusion and political turmoil in Angola?” she wrote on social media.
Source: GhanaWeb
