Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday, stated that fake news will be the cause of the third World War.

He made the statement while appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Information, National Orientation, Ethics and Values to defend his ministry’s 2022 budget allocation.

According to Mohammed, the means of receiving information has changed over the decades, as 30 years ago it was through Television and radio sets, but people now prefer to patronise social media where fake news circulates easily.

The minister said; “The people today, they don’t read newspapers and don’t watch television — it’s social media. And it is most expensive; the most unseen enemy, they are there every moment.

I have always said here that the next world war will be caused by fake news.

“You can see even the US that use to pride itself on the freedom of the press is now questioning the role of the social media”.