The information went around Mauritanian social networks. President Mohamed Abdel Aziz would hold a $ 2 billion (720 billion Ouguiyas) credited account in Dubai. The US Treasury would have “frozen” this account housed in a “Mauritanian fund”, we curse without any other form of precision.
Several Mauritanian netizens, warmed to white by what gathered to a big scoop of precampagne, abundantly relayed the information. Some have sent inflamed pleadings begging the Emir Mohammed bin Rashid to return to the Mauritanian people his money.
According to our sources, the Mauritanian president will file a complaint against Al-Quds Al-Arabi based in London and Al Jazeera television, which broadcasts from Doha, Qatar. What the presidential entourage describes as fake news, delivers a scent of the issue of presidential coming, namely misinformation. In this case, bloggers cite media that themselves cite bloggers. In short, it is the snake who bites his tail or, according to the jargon of the newsrooms, the wolf who saw the man who saw the wolf.
The judicial inquiry opened in Nouakchott will certainly allow to locate the origin of an information for the most incredible. The bloggers who relayed the news are right to stick to the sacrosanct rule of journalism: “we do not reveal our sources”. But are they right to ignore the no less sacrosanct rule of journalism stating that it is not enough to simply cross a piece of information, it must also be verified?
