Fake News Archives

Ethiopia Passes Hate Speech Law

February 13, 2020TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY AFP Ethiopia on Thursday passed a law punishing “hate speech” and “disinformation” with hefty fines and long jail terms, despite fears by rights groups it undermines gains in free speech.

The ION: A Litany of False Stories on Eritrea

May 23, 2018May 23, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION In its latest publication (No. 1474) of 18 May last week, the Indian Ocean Newsletter floats a litany of wild stories on Eritrea on the basis of innuendos; apparently without minimum verification. To highlight some of its outlandish assertions:   

German TV Channel ZDF Retracts False Eritrea Protest Story

January 12, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY RAY JA FRASER | SHABAIT After nearly two months, the German public television and news outlet Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) has withdrawn its report of the October 31st, 2017 small Asmara protest. Notably, the original report, which was retracted and not simply corrected (a significant difference), was strewn with innumerable fabrications and easily demonstrable […]

The Eritrean Community Requests Correction to the Italian Press

November 3, 2017TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

The Eritrean Community in Italy calls on all the Italian press to verify their sources for the false news story they have published or to retract it. PRESS RELEASE The Eritrean community in Italy and the world live with anguish on the new international media attack against Eritrea where the false news of “28 deaths […]

Clarifying Recent Newsweek Coverage on Eritrea

June 23, 2017July 31, 2020TesfaNews47 Comments

BY DR. FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PhD) Last week, Newsweek published an article about Eritrea decrying the internal situation in the country. As has become so common with reports on Eritrea, the article was heavily biased, overly simplistic, filled with stereotypes, and devoid of context, ultimately serving to poignantly encapsulate how coverage of the country is so […]

Fake News, The BBC and Eritrea

May 19, 2017September 19, 2017TesfaNews50 Comments

BY YAFET ZEREOU Sometime in April of 2017, the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit published its findings about a complaint made about an article on Eritrea. On the face of it, it would appear that the BBC had done the right and honourable thing by acknowledging a mistake it made. After all, this is the BBC […]