With the advent of social media, fake news has become rampant that people tend to believe it more than the authentic
news. Since social media has become one of the faster means of communication more than other channels of
communication, among the younger generations, social media is now a trending means of information dissemination
whether true or not. On the other hand, this has created an impact in the political system hence, this work was to
ascertain the voting behaviour of citizens particularly the youths who are the major users of social media. A survey of
literature in this study shows that despite the flood of fake news in social media, its influence on voting behaviour
among the residents in Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo state, has not been adequately researched by intellectuals. The study
seeks to find out how frequent voters receive political news on social media and whether the political news they receive
on social media influence their perception of candidates and voting behaviour during election. Voters residing at Ngor
Okpala LGA of Imo state constituted the population for this study. The study is anchored on two theories of mass
communication, social learning and the Uses and gratification theory. The survey method and focus Group Discussion
method were adopted using the questionnaire and the Focus Group Discussion Schedule as instrument for data
collection. The work concludes that fake news in social media has a little influence on the voting behaviour of a large
number of voters
