Gladys Wanga PHOTO: [COURTESY]
The newspaper has disowned the screengrab.
This screen grab on X (formerly Twitter), purportedly of The Star newspaper reporting that a female Nyanza governor is being lined up to be Kenya’s next deputy president, is FAKE.
The story was reportedly published by the newspaper’s Corridors of Power segment.
The purported screengrab has also been shared here and here.
But did The Star publish such a story?
A search on the publication’s website using some words from the purported screen grab did not bring up the story.
A review of the Corridors of Power segment also shows that the media outlet did not publish the story.
PesaCheck reviewed The Star’s X account and Facebook page, which shares Corridors of Power articles, and established that the stories do not carry photos of their subjects.
Further, The Star flagged the purported screen grab as fake here.
Governor Wanga also flagged the post and termed it fake news.
“False information spreads like wildfire, fueled by deceitful propaganda!” Wanga posted on Facebook.
PesaCheck examined a screen grab on X purportedly of The Star newspaper report on a female Nyanza governor being lined up to be Kenya’s next deputy president and found it to be FAKE.
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.
