Fauziyya Tukur

Communications Specialist, Disinformation and OSINT Specialist, Investigative Journalist, Media Trainer, English-Hausa Translator and Voice Actor

Nigeria

Fauziyya Kabir Tukur is a communication specialist with experience in investigative
journalism and skills in Open-Source Intelligence. She worked for the BBC Hausa Service for five years as a multimedia journalist where she produced and presented the BBC Hausa flagship morning show, digital videos and live programs. She was a lead writer for the BBC Hausa Digital Team. She was also the project coordinator for the service’s annual writing contest for women, Hikayata.

She was selected for a United States journalism fellowship at the World Press Institute in St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota in 2023. While in the US,
she was on the World Affairs Forum where she spoke to CBS’s Ray Suarez about
disinformation in Nigeria. Ms. Tukur has attended courses on the rise of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco and has participated in workshops at NYC Media Lab. She has attended leadership and editorial courses in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Fauziyya is a co-chair for the BBC's Global Women in News, a global network which supports, connects and mentors women who work in news, all around the world. She also serves on the board of Pink Arena Foundation, a non-profit organisation that caters to women empowerment in Nigeria.

She is currently a senior journalist working on disinformation and misinformation investigations for the BBC's global disinformation unit.

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Long Form Content/Investigations

BBC News
05/11/2022
Ipob: Nigerian 'media warriors' call for killings on social media over Biafra

A network of Nigerian separatists based outside the country is using social media to call for violence and incite ethnic hatred against opponents of Biafran independence, a BBC investigation has found. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence In a Facebook live broadcast to her more than 40,000 followers, Efe Uwanogho, also known as Omote Biafra, shouts hate speech directly into the camera.

BBC
Trending - The influencer and the insider: Chinmark's demise - BBC Sounds

In 2020 the Chinmark Group appeared to be a thriving Nigerian business empire, endorsed by a string of popular influencers online. It sold investment deals to its followers, promising them astonishing returns. Today the empire is in tatters, but what went wrong? We hear from a social media star who hyped the company up, a former employee who sold the scheme to the public, and a student who staked his life savings on its success - losing everything in the process. And we’ll find out why firms...

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BBC Africa
01/18/2023
The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote

A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of general elections in February. The BBC's Global Disinformation Team has spoken to whistle-blowers working for two of Nigeria's political parties, and prominent influencers who have described it as "an industry". The whistle-blowers say parties give out cash, lavish gifts, government contracts and even political...

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BBC News
01/18/2023
Nigeria elections 2023: How influencers are secretly paid by political parties

A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of general elections in February. The BBC's Global Disinformation Team has spoken to whistle-blowers working for two of Nigeria's political parties, and prominent influencers who have described it as "an industry".

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