Popular discipline, football is an incubator conducive to the spread of false information . The bigger it's, the more it goes? The favorite themes concern the accusations of doping, cheating and any information relating to the privacy of the various actors in the environment. The goal is to disrupt sports opinion via more or less shocking and unjust scoops.
The strong media coverage of the event is more than ever concerned by disinformation in the field, an inevitable meeting of the continent. The first poisoning around the CAN 2024 released at the end of December 2023 around the refusal of the teams of Guinea, Algeria and Morocco to be housed in the "Cité Can" for this 34th edition .
Some examples of info on football
On March 29, 2022, the tragic defeat of Algeria against Cameroon during the final phase of the World Cup in Qatar was accompanied by a substantial intoxication . Largely hued by the Fan Zone opposing for his decisions, referee Bakary Gassama is also threatened. A rumor runs following the meeting: the Gambian would have been attacked and then killed, en route for the airport. Fabulation quickly denied by the Gambian Football Federation.
In December of the same year, a media announced Morocco as a host country of the CAN 2025 before the CAF designates the land of reception of this competition! Once again, the news is very quickly denied by whom by law, namely the Minister of Youth and Sports here, Abderrazak Sebgag, but also by the African Football Confederation (CAF).
In conclusion, in time of large sporting clashes, watch out for "shock" and unrecached information!
