Certain echo chambers on social media have played significant roles in amplifying claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, TheCable can report.

Since Boko Haram’s insurgency began in 2009, allegations of a Christian genocide in Nigeria have periodically surfaced.

While such narratives have persisted over the years, their intensity has fluctuated — fading briefly after last year before regaining momentum in 2025.

Data from X showed that online conversations referencing the Christian genocide narrative remained below 5,000 posts from March to July, rose to nearly 10,000 between July and August, and then recorded a double surge in October, peaking at around 20,000 posts — the highest level in years.

Between January 1 and October 1, the period covered by the investigation, there were approximately 165,000 mentions of the topic on X — an average of about 578 posts per day.

In the same period, the posts reached an estimated 2.83 billion people — a figure more than twelve times Nigeria’s population of roughly 230 million and about one-third of the world’s eight billion people.