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  "id": 346188,
  "title": "INVESTIGATION: Social media, anonymous websites drive Nigeria’s poorly regulated weight-loss injection market",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/investigation-social-media-anonymous-websites-drive-nigerias-poorly",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-09T04:00:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/901574-investigation-social-media-anonymous-websites-drive-nigerias-poorly-regulated-weight-loss-injection-market.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "What appeared to be ordinary social media marketing led PREMIUM TIMES into a week-long open-source investigation that uncovered a growing digital marketplace where vendors sell the injections without requesting prescriptions and downplayed or denied their side effects. The post INVESTIGATION: Social media, anonymous websites drive Nigeria’s poorly regulated weight-loss injection market appeared…",
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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."
}