‘Fake news’ in Kenya’s 2022 elections: What has gender got to do with it?
Political propaganda against vocal women is often personal, sexualised, and tries to silence or intimidate them out of the race. Such gendered information operations are not...
“Gay affairs ring, Redhouse boss and Nick Ruto,” reads the headline on what appears to be the front page of the Standard, a Kenyan newspaper, circulating on Facebook.
The page shows a photo of Kenyan president-elect William Ruto’s son Nick...
The image dates back to 2018 and shows a fake lawyer arrested in Nigeria
A Facebook post with an image purportedly showing a Nigerian, who joined President-elect William Ruto’s legal team is FALSE.
The post reads: “Just in. Nigerian Igbo man...
This digital card on Facebook purportedly quoting Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga is FAKE.
The card has the branding of local media house TV47 logo and quotes Odinga castigating President William Ruto over graft in the country....
A video of a large crowd of people singing and dancing, waving the flag of Uganda, is circulating on Twitter with the claim that they are celebrating the electoral commission announcement that William Ruto had won Kenya’s 9 August...
The six IEBC commissioners have been included as interested parties in a petition filed by a voter identified as John Kamau.
A post shared on Facebook claiming six Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners have filed a joint petition...
What seems to be an internal memo by the state-owned Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) announcing the sacking of staff from the Luo community has caught social media attention.
The memo is headed: “TERMINATION OF SERVICES OF CHARLES OCHIENG...
A graphic circulating on Facebook attributes a controversial quote to Kenyan presidential candidate George Wajackoyah.
In it, he appears to suggest that he won’t participate in the presidential debate scheduled for 26 July 2022 if he has to debate with...
The media houses listed in the screenshot have confirmed that they ran independent tallies.A Twitter screenshot claiming to show election results of a joint media tally done by Citizen TV, KTN News, NTV, K24, and TV47 is FAKE.In the...
A photo of Francis Atwoli, the secretary general of Kenya’s Central Organization of Trade Unions, standing with a travelling bag at an airport is circulating on Facebook in August 2022.
It’s being posted with the claim that it shows him...