{"id":33238,"date":"2017-03-16T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-broadcaster-suspends-staff-over-fake\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:34:46","slug":"tanzania-broadcaster-suspends-staff-over-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-broadcaster-suspends-staff-over-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania broadcaster suspends staff over fake Trump news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a hoax story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli&#8217;s performance.}<\/p>\n<p>The article appeared on a website called Fox Channel.<\/p>\n<p>The story, which was broadcast last week, said Mr Trump called Mr Magufuli an &#8220;African hero&#8221; compared to other leaders who are &#8220;doing nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from TBC said editorial procedures had not been followed.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster&#8217;s Director General Ayub Rioba said that the station should have verified the information before broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>The story said that the US president had called on other African leaders to follow Mr Magufuli&#8217;s example with his emphasis on good governance and his war against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Magufuli, known as the &#8220;bulldozer&#8221; for his hands on approach to leadership, has been waging a public war on corruption which has won him some support locally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The article said that Mr Trump made the comments while signing an executive order excluding Tanzanians from a travel ban on African nationals &#8220;from countries where presidents are doing nothing and those [that] have declined to leave power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18783 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_86389660_86387941.jpg\" alt=\"President John Magufuli has a reputation of being a no-nonsense leader\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a hoax story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli&#8217;s performance.} The article appeared on a website called Fox Channel. The story, which was broadcast last week, said Mr Trump called Mr Magufuli an &#8220;African hero&#8221; compared to other leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}