Fatimatu Abubakar
Fatimatu Abubakar is a Ghanaian lawyer, politician and entrepreneur. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was appointed as the Minister for Information on 14 February 2024. Fatimatu Abubakar had previously served as the Deputy Information Minister and she was also the Deputy Communications Director at the Office of the President. Prior to her political appointments, she worked at the SRM Engineering Limited and the Lansdown Resort, Aburi, where she served as a Clerk and the house manager respectively.
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[edit]- it would sanitize the media ecosystem and make it unprofitable for people to spread false information.
- Abubakar speaking on Governments' effort to curb misinformation GhanaWeb (4 August 2024)
- In the absence of accurate information and facts, a vacuum is created and people take advantage to spread falsehood and rumours.
- Abubakar speaking on Governments' effort to curb misinformation GhanaWeb (4 August 2024)
- Reasearch shows that fake news spreads faster than real facts. For instance, a research on Twitter now X, showed that 70 per cent of fake news is likely to be retweeted than information on government policies.
- Abubakar speaking on Governments' effort to curb misinformation GhanaWeb (4 August 2024)
- The right to information is the right to truth and the right to fact and not the right to misinformation.
- Abubakar speaking on Governments' effort to curb misinformation GhanaWeb (4 August 2024)
- Mahama is a threat to Ghana’s democracy
- “Former President Mahama isn’t above the law, and I find it disappointing to hear such criticisms of independent state institutions coming from a former president,”
- "Is that how the law should be viewed? Absolutely not. The law dictates that all cases before the court should be decided on merit.”
- disinformation and misinformation have developed more in a decade than centuries ago, hence, the need for stakeholders to manage them.
- We bear individual and collective responsibility to ensure that the right things are done. If we do not collectively look for solutions and say the mandate lies only on those who have been elected, I believe the solution will take some time
- managing the online space coupled with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly sophisticated in recent times.
- In 2012, when the Supreme Court ruled against then-candidate Akufo-Addo, he accepted the decision without question to preserve our democratic stability. That’s the approach that upholds democracy—not bending the law to fit personal or political interests