Olive Burrows: PHOTO{COURTESY]
Burrows wore a different dress in the original image.
A Facebook post with an image of Citizen TV journalist Olive Burrows wearing a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) branded dress is ALTERED.
The post reads, “Olive Burrows wins Miss UDA in the journalism category! Let’s give her a round of applause!”
The dress is also branded “Kenya Kwanza Women Brigade.”
UDA is Kenya’s ruling party under the Kenya Kwanza coalition umbrella.
The image was shared following a 27 July 2024 interview on Citizen TV with youth activists in the wake of anti-government protests, during which Burrows was accused of being pro-government by some social media users.
PesaCheck examined Burrows’ official social media accounts and found an image with similar features as the claim image.
The news anchor shared an image standing in the same posture and background on 26 February 2024 on Instagram and Facebook.
A side-by-side comparison of the original image and the doctored one shows that the authentic photo was manipulated to add the UDA branded dress.
Burrows denounced the claim in response to a PesaCheck inquiry saying, “I am in no way associated with UDA or Kenya Kwanza. It is cyberbullying.”
PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook post with an image of Citizen TV journalist Olive Burrows wearing a United Democratic Alliance-branded dress and finds it to be ALTERED.
This post was first published on the PesaCheck website. It is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. They do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
