"Our project, Naija Falsehood Buster, is an AI-based tool being fashioned to detect and analyze falsehoods across the Nigerian media space. And we all know that falsehood erodes societal values. It polarizes communities and stokes ethnic and religious tensions across all strata. We embarked on this project to provide a scalable technology-based or driven-response to those challenges which are fake news often bring to bear on the society. The AI tool uses a natural language processing and machine learning to identify and classify misleading content [...]. It is very crucial at this point in time to have access to tools like ours when it is fully developed or like other existing fact-checking tools [...] and we strongly believe that this project, after its actualization, should be scalable," Dr. Onayinka said.