Boko ‘fake news’ dictum sparks row

In a sweeping statement he made recently, Boko lambasted the local press alleging 90 % of media reports are fake, triggering a heated response from the practitioners calling his assessment ‘fake’. Boko recently told a Cabinet retreat held at the Pavilion conference facility in Gaborone to defend freedom of expression.

At a meeting that was also attended by various senior government officials, the President whose government is human rights slant, started off by recognising members of the Fourth Estate and the work that they are doing, “including the spread of fake news.”