It was a war of words on twitter yesterday as the #commonsense Senator got Sahara Reporters panicking for blackmailing him over some allegations he claims to know nothing about.
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce
It was a frenzy of public backlash against SaharaReporters after the media house allegedly accused and lied against Senator Ben Murray-Bruce saying that he was among those who facilitated the passing of a bill proposing 2-year jail term for Nigerians spreading false statements on the Social Media.
What followed next would go down in twitter history as explosive rebuff and schooling on what a credible media organization should be by Ben and many other twitter users who confronted the media outfit to publish tweets or claims proving that the Senator had a hand in the bill or to honourable apologize to the Senator for defamation. SaharaReporters refused to apologize.
Ben carpeted the news media challenging them to show evidence of the allegations, which never came. The #commonsense senator who was irked by the allegation found it disheartening that a media house which prides itself as a credible and authentic media platform could stoop so low as to peddle trash without verification from him when his doors are open for such invites.
Twitter users remarked that it was the mode of operation of the SaharaReporters to badmouth people who are blazing leading trends just as they did to the senator.
Here is how some twitter users reacted to the controversy: