How Fake News Disrupted Kenya’s Election
How Fake News Disrupted Kenya’s Election
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With most of the votes counted in Kenya’s contentious election, President Uhuru Kenyatta is taking a lead over the opposition leader Raila Odinga. Byt Odinga rejected the results, calling them “fake” and claiming the electoral commission’s IT system had been hacked.
According to GeoPoll, 90 percent of Kenyans have seen or heard fake news around this year’s election, with 87 percent reporting instances of deliberately false or fake news. Ahead of the voting, Facebook offered a tool to spot fake news. To discuss the Kenyan election and the rise of fake news, we’re joined by Alphonce Shiundu, an editor at Africa’s first independent fact-checking organization Africa Check.