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Fact Check #1 #2 #3 #4 Were there more than 300 schoolgirls abducted? How many girls were at the school on night of April 14? Officials are still unclear, but the best figure is that around 360 were present at the school when the attack happened appears the most accurate (Aminu Abubakar, April 2015.) In addition to those 300 first kidnapped, hundreds more like them have also been taken from schools around Nigeria (Aminu Abubakar, April 2015.) This statement is true. More than 1 million tweets throughout the last three years. The campaign started in Africa and extended outward, many people tweeting from different countries including America and Europe. Though there probably have been more than a million tweets, the majority of the tweets haven’t been totally based on the actual campaign to bring back the kidnapped Nigerian girls. The twitter page #bringbackourgirls has only been retweeted 11,000 times. (Peter Cunliffe-Jones October 2015) This statement is partly true. Local activists started # campaign #bringbackourdaughters. Two mothers started the campaign when the first group of girls were taken, hoping to spread the word and nudge someone into action against Boko Haram (Aminu Abubakar, April 2015, pg 1) This statement is true. The kidnapping continues to happen, and will continue. According to africacheck.org In addition to those abducted and still held from the 2014 raid in Chibok, it is important to note that many thousands of other Nigerians have been abducted over the past six years by the group. At least 2,000 women and children have been taken since the beginning of 2014, many of them co-opted into battle or sexual slavery, Amnesty International claims. Boys, too, are conscripted as fighters (Aminu Abubakar, April 2015, pg 1). This statement is true. Key: Blue = Partly True Green = True Red = False 39 40