{"id":6951,"date":"2020-04-12T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2020-04-12T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:54:58","slug":"udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data","title":{"rendered":"UDSM student arrested over alleged wrong Covid-19 data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:\u00a0<\/strong> A third year student of the University Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has been arrested in Shinyanga Region for over allegations of dissemination of false information on social media showing that there are about 230 cases of Covid-19 in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Shinyanga regional police commander Debora Magiligimba said the 23-year old student was arrested on Thursday at the Mwadui Gold mMine in Kishapu District, Shinyanga Region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ms Magiligimba claimed that on March 26, the police unit responsible for monitoring social networks succeeded to come across a WhatsApp message sent by the suspect reading in Swahili as, \u201c\u2026Mpk ss Tanzania ina wagonjwa wapatao takriban 230 wa Covid-19 na waliofariki ni 04\u201d, Kiswahili for: \u201cUp to now, Tanzania has about 230 Covid-19 cases and 04 deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After a thorough search by the police, the suspect was found with the phone used to send the message. The police have already interrogated her and plans are afoot to charge her with publishing and disseminating false information online as well as providing false statistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI call upon the public to be careful with the use of social networks and avoid misleading people because doing so is a criminal offense that attracts legal measures,\u201d commander Magiligimba emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This comes barely a week after another incident where man was also arrested in Kilimanjaro Region for allegedly spreading false information on the Covid-19 pandemic on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania:\u00a0 A third year student of the University Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has been arrested in Shinyanga Region for over allegations of dissemination of false information on social media showing that there are about 230 cases of Covid-19 in Tanzania. Shinyanga regional police commander Debora Magiligimba said the 23-year old student was arrested on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2565,8],"tags":[2073,2322,206],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-tanzania","category-homepage-english","tag-arrested","tag-covid-19","tag-udsm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UDSM student arrested over alleged wrong Covid-19 data - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A third year student of the University Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has been arrested in Shinyanga Region for over allegations of dissemination of false information\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UDSM student arrested over alleged wrong Covid-19 data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A third year student of the University Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has been arrested in Shinyanga Region for over allegations of dissemination of false information\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-12T15:54:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/04\/picudsm.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UDSM student arrested over alleged wrong Covid-19 data\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-12T15:54:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\"},\"wordCount\":230,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/04\/picudsm.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"arrested\",\"COVID-19\",\"UDSM\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in Tanzania\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/udsm-student-arrested-over-alleged-wrong-covid-19-data\",\"name\":\"UDSM student arrested over alleged wrong Covid-19 data - 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