{"id":43199,"date":"2015-10-29T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=43199"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:26:27","slug":"wikes-loyalists-open-fake-premium-times-facebook-page-for-deception-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wikes-loyalists-open-fake-premium-times-facebook-page-for-deception-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike\u2019s loyalists open fake PREMIUM TIMES Facebook page for deception, propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some supporters of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have created a\u00a0phony Facebook account, passing it off as the original PREMIUM TIMES\u00a0Facebook page, in what appears a desperate move to mislead the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The page calls itself Premium Times News and uses the logo and other\u00a0creatives and styles belonging to PREMIUM TIMES.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through the page, the group peddles falsehoods and dishes out dangerous\u00a0propaganda, circulating them widely as if they emanated from PREMIUM TIMES\u00a0reporting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At times, the group hires some blogs and websites to help it republish its\u00a0falsehoods on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The page claims its administrators operate out of 38 Forces Avenue, Old\u00a0GRA, Port Harcourt, the same address as that of the Rivers state chapter\u00a0of the All Progressives Congress. We later found this to be a decoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The page started out as a Nyesom Wike support group. The page\u2019s permanent\u00a0URL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nyesomwike2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nyesomwike2015\/<\/a>) clearly shows this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But shortly after the elections, it changed its identity to Premium Times\u00a0News, cloning the PREMIUM TIMES brand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The administrators of the page also stole and used PREMIUM TIMES\u2019 branding\u00a0elements in a bid to deceive the public and pass down its highly biased\u00a0contents as though it was produced in line with PREMIUM TIMES\u2019\u00a0professional standard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, a website, The Trent Online, circulated a concocted news item\u00a0it sourced from the fake Facebook page, attributing it to PREMIUM TIMES.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report purportedly quoted Justice Muazu Pindiga, a judge who served on\u00a0the Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, as claiming that he\u00a0was offered bribe, threatened by the State Security Service before he was\u00a0eventually removed from the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The story was apparently manufactured to cast aspersion on the judgment of\u00a0the Rivers Tribunal which gave judgment on Saturday sacking Governor Wike<br \/>\nand ordering a rerun in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PREMIUM TIMES did not publish any such story and the Trent did not contact our paper before running a piece it sourced from the fake Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, the website left an editor\u2019s note below the fake story\u00a0saying it had since determined that the Facebook page from which it\u00a0sourced the report does not belong to PREMIUM TIMES.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It however failed to pull down the story, saying doing so would leave its\u00a0readers encountering \u201can error message if they attempted to reference this\u00a0report\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another website, Elombah.com had earlier published the same phony report.\u00a0But it has since edited its post, removing PREMIUM TIMES as the source of\u00a0its story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PREMIUM TIMES Managing Editor, Musikilu Mojeed, said his organization\u00a0became aware of the fake Facebook page some weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur head of digital strategy immediately filed a formal report to\u00a0Facebook but Facebook has failed to pull the page down since then, letting\u00a0the mischief makers to continue spreading their falsehoods, using our\u00a0identity,\u201d Mr. Mojeed said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPREMIUM TIMES has only two Facebook pages. The first is the English\u00a0version \u2013 www.facebook.com\/premiumtimes \u2013 and the Hausa version \u00a0www.facebook.com\/premiumtimeshausa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAny other page claiming to belong to the PREMIUM TIMES brand is a pirated\u00a0copy and should be disregarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When contacted on the matter, Governor Wike\u2019s media assistant, Sam\u00a0Nwakaudu, said, \u201cThis your blackmail is getting out of hand.\u201d\u00a0He immediately terminated the call.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some supporters of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have created a\u00a0phony Facebook account, passing it off as the original PREMIUM TIMES\u00a0Facebook page, in what appears a desperate move to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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