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Application of Social Media for Rumour Governance in Nigeria

The advent and growth of social media has a considerable impact on governance and this has dramatically changed the entire political landscape not only in Nigeria, but throughout the world.The pervasiveness of social media has made it to become an integral part of public discourse and communication.Academic literature extensively documents the trend, and interrogates its manifestation, especially on the digital media space, the complications in conceptualisation, the basic motivations for creating and sharing it, and the various mitigation strategies.The paper anchors on the logic of trend ana…