{
  "id": 19594142,
  "title": "Nigeria Police Target AI Fakes Before Vote",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/nigeria-police-target-ai-fakes-before-vote",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-12T02:58:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/nigeria-police-ai-fake-news-2027-election/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Nigeria Police Force, led by Inspector-General Tunji Disu, has taken steps to combat AI fakes ahead of the 2027 general elections. The police have raided suspected phone farms, which are networks of phones used to artificially inflate online buzz, and have acquired AI detection tools. These tools are said to detect deepfakes, fake AI videos and audio, with up to 99% accuracy. The police have not disclosed the number of raids, their locations, or the vendor of the AI tools. However, they have identified one suspect accused of spreading false claims about a South-South candidate and arrested a suspect for creating a manipulated video of President Bola Tinubu. The police are working with social media platforms like Meta and TikTok to trace and take down posts. They are also working to strengthen their National Cybercrime Centre, which deals with technology-enabled crimes.",
  "summary": "Nigeria's police say they are raiding phone farms and testing AI audio and video before the 2027 elections, but gave no raid numbers or vendor. The post Nigeria Police Target AI Fakes Before Vote appeared first on The Rio Times .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}