Project Description:
Masquerade examines how ignorance fans fake news. It seems the most educated are the purveyors of misinformation in this age of instant messaging. These humans, masked behind a computer and the influence amassed from social media, were paid to tweet or openly support fake news as a political propaganda tool in Nigeria's recent election. The leftover fumed ethnic segregation and bias that traverse from online to offline, all which mostly started from just a tweet. An example of the herd mentality terrorist ideologies has gained amongst millennials in this age of technology and instant information dissemination.
