Break the Fake, Part 2.
As someone who does not usually follow the news, I struggled to find a news story that I was skeptical of. But I found this video clip, it is not really viral, but I first saw this video on a news website I have never heard of before. This video is about a gas station in Onitsha, Nigeria exploding. First I went to check the source,
And this account does not have the blue checkmark. So then I went to other sources to see if anyone has written anything about this event.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/breaking-gas-station-explodes-in-onitsha/
I found this news article where they talked about the same thing, however, I have never heard of this news site. So then I went to Wikipedia to check the authenticity of this newspaper.
The Wikipedia shows that this newspaper article is unbiased and based in Nigeria, which is where the accident occurred. This means that the newspaper is reliable. I then went on Snopes.com. Unfortunately, the video was not on snopes.com. So instead, I searched up “gas station explosion in Onitsha hoax”.
As we can see here, all the news articles do not “expose” the video, instead, there are multiple news sources talking about this current tragedy.
So to conclude our journey, I can confidently say that this news story was real. The gas station fire and explosion were, in fact, in Onitsha, Nigeria and the original post I found from a Twitter account was real.
Thank you for reading, and sticking along for the journey. Have a great day, peace out. ✌😘
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