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In mid-January 2016, several fake news articles started circulating on the internet, claiming that a new law required men in Eritrea to marry at least two women in order to bolster its flagging population: The above-quoted story was taken from a web site called Crazy World, but similar stories appeared around the same time in several other fake Nigerian news web sites. Some publications also included an image purportedly showing the official document forcing Eritrean men to take multiple wives: The earliest iteration of the above-displayed image that we could uncover was posted to the Mereja forum on 22 January 2016. The only comment on that post was that was a good joke. Eritrean government officials quickly debunked the rumor, telling the BBC that even a madman in [the Eritrean capital] Asmara would know that this story was not true. Eritrea's Information Minister said on Twitter that the spread of the story worldwide showed how eager the press was to embrace any negative coverage of the country: One publication — Sahara Reporters — retracted the story, and then ran an update debunking it.
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