On this day in conspiracies

Four conservative Ogoni chiefs are killed by a mob at Giokoo. Saro-Wiwa, stopped at a roadblock and turned away from the area that day, is arrested days later and accused of inciting the murders, a charge he and MOSOP reject as a pretext.

At an Oval Office meeting, Trump plays President Cyril Ramaphosa a video and shows printouts he presents as evidence of mass killings of white farmers. Fact-checkers quickly establish that footage of body bags in the montage was Reuters video filmed in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and that a line of white roadside crosses was a memorial display, not thousands of graves.

The Presidency issues a statement, signed by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, stating there is "no truth" to the viral story and that Tinubu has no plan whatsoever to send any bill code-named "Project True Federation" to the National Assembly.

4chan abruptly shuts down its 'Adult Requests' board, which researchers had identified as one of the largest venues for producing and trading nonconsensual AI-generated images, part of the wider ecosystem that fed fabricated Epstein content into the discourse.