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🚨 A reminder that we're shutting down this account tomorrow! Follow @Code4Africa to stay updated on our latest news and events.

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@okikitweets Hello Abdulrosheed. We're streamlining our various accounts, so follow us on @Code4Africa for all our news and events.

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📦 We are streamlining our platforms and parking this account, @CodeForNigeria_ news and updates will now be shared from Code for Africa’s main account. This Twitter page will be inactive from 14 August 2019 so follow @Code4Africa to keep receiving our updates. #relocated

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#HHBNI How can you use your media skills to make money💰? Join our #BeninCity @HHAfrica meetup on Friday, 26 July to learn about the exciting opportunities currently flooding through the media sector. You can RSVP for free here: https://t.co/vY2YfbkDLK

[Bathabile Dlamini @bathadlamini1]

With @A_Strydom from @Code4Africa taking us through ways in fighting fake news using digital tools for fact checking #ZimNewMedaSummit19 @nustzim @usembassyharare @InfoMinZW @263Chat @medialit #centre4media

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Through @sensorsAFRICA, we're deploying low-cost sensors to measure #airquality in key African cities in order to monitor life-threatening pollution and provide watchdogs with the info they need. ✉️ You can join our mailing list for project updates here: https://t.co/LNUbw5wzES

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👓#WanaData South Africa's @KimHarrisberg meets the Somali women of Mayfair, #Johannesburg, who are working against odds to create a life for themselves in SA by buying and renting property out to fellow refugees. Read her piece for @thisisplace here: https://t.co/0SOwzPGUub

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Our lead Academy trainer @AimLEGEND_ is @bellanaija's #MCM this week 🙌🏿🙌🏿

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Citizen Data Scientist Blaise Aboh of Orodata is our #BellaNaijaMCM this Week! https://t.co/6CGIa04mVb

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Our deputy CEO @ChrisRoper 👨🏻‍⚖️ is a judge at this year's Africa Digital Media Awards. You can register for this premier digital news conference here: https://t.co/gycvHX6m9b @NewspaperWorld #AfricanDigitalMediaAwards2019 #ADMA19

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👓 What would happen if female genital mutilation ‘surgeons’ were brought together to meet their #FGM victims, learn about its dangers and come up with ideas on how to stop it? #WanaData Nigeria’s @nonyeaghaji explores the idea in this @Independent piece: https://t.co/yfHSAZY76a

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👓 "Telling a story using data gives it more credibility and makes the audience to understand better." Here is a detailed round-up of our Hacks/Hackers June meetup in Lagos by a community member, @Mediacareerngr’s @ibnamoo: https://t.co/7KBe4TvVlj #ddj

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Join us to learn how to use visualisations to make your stories more engaging and interactive.

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#HHLOS Producing stories using data and visualisation requires a particular set of skills. Join us for @HHAfrica #Lagos on 22 June where we'll train attendants on how to use interactive infographics in a story to create and sustain engagement. RSVP here: https://t.co/vY2YfbkDLK

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Well done @AimLEGEND_ 🙌🏿

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🎉 Congratulations to CfA's lead Academy trainer @AimLEGEND_, who's been selected as one of the @ObamaFoundation Leaders in Africa. One of our Innovation Fellows, Blaise is also the founder of @Orodata Science.

[Code for Africa @Code4Africa]

"Act like a lady"
Language often promotes gender bias and stereotypes, and this is no different in Nigeria. From a data desk we've established at @GuardianNigeria, #WanaData's @Torinmo reports on language's role in promoting gender inequality in #Nigeria: https://t.co/FPwM0bRu1o

[Code for Nigeria @CodeForNigeria_]

.@JohnOsawe helping #journalist protect personal information and privacy #WanaData

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity

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Lunchtime/Networking

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity

[Code for Nigeria @CodeForNigeria_]

7 types of Mis/Mal-information
Satire/parody.
Misleading content.
Imposter content.
Fabricated content.
False connections.
False content.
Manipulated content.

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity

[Code for Nigeria @CodeForNigeria_]

Tools to identify fake news:
Tineye
Google image search

The 1st draft toolbox
Google earth pro
Google maps
https://t.co/xA1GbUlpjv
https://t.co/nr2oW3QX8I
Way back machine

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity

[Code for Nigeria @CodeForNigeria_]

Facts and opinions are usually portrayed as objective truth but only one is.
#Facts

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity

@USEmbassyAbuja @sabihubng @AimLEGEND_ @JohnOsawe

[Code for Nigeria @CodeForNigeria_]

A fact is an event, item of information or state of affairs existing, observed/known to have happened &which can be validated/confirmed to such events

#WDBNI #datajournalism #BeninCity