- A video posted on Twitter by controversial blogger Madoka Kibet purportedly showing a Kenyan man stoned to death for stealing a phone was false. Shouts from spectators can be heard in the background encouraging the motorbike rider to kill the suspect, who was eventually killed by stoning. We ran a background check on the footage and discovered that the school bus is from Little Friends Montessori Day Care Centre, and its contact information is +255 713 576 978. The code +255 is Tanzania’s country calling code, and +254 is Kenya’s country calling code. We also investigated Little Friends Montessori Day Care Centre and discovered that it is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2. A video shared on Twitter purportedly showing the current situation in Nairobi as a woman is robbed at gunpoint was false. We used the InVID tool to create keyframes and thumbnails of the video, then reversed the image, and discovered that the CCTV footage of four people and one other on a motorcycle robbing a woman at gunpoint was posted on the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Twitter handle on March 24, 2019, when detectives based in Mombasa arrested the five suspects in connection with a robbery in the Aldina & Makande area in Mombasa County.
3. A tweet claiming to show an image of the Uganda-Kenya border bridge was false. The image shows the Nigeria-Cameroon border bridge, which was completed in July 2021 and includes a joint border post for seamless trade and migration between the two countries. We reversed the image and discovered the photo was shared in an article by Channels TV, a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, on July 28, 2021, when the Nigerian Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, went to inspect the border bridge connecting Nigeria and Cameroon project. We also learnt from a tweet on the official Twitter account of the Government of Nigeria that the two-lane border bridge was officially commissioned on November 3, 2022, by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Cameroonian President Paul Biya.
