Fake News And Whistle Blowing Policy: Public Assessment Of The Impact On Media Credibility

AbstractThe paper examined fake news and whistle blowing policy: public assessment of the impact on media credibility. Faced with the increase in the dissemination of fake news to the public domain causing restiveness and tension, the researcher set out to achieve the following objectives; to find out the prevalence of fake news and whistle blowing on social media, to investigate the impacts of fake news and whistle blowing policies on media credibility and to identify the possible solutions to the problem of fake news in Nigerian media. Both primary and secondary data was adopted for the stud…