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🚪 A stranger promises you a government grant in exchange for your personal details.

Would you trust them? 🤔

Musa thinks the rules are different online. But should they be? Watch.

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🛡️ Spotted something suspicious? Let’s fact-check it.

✅ Say hello on our WhatsApp Tipline: https://t.co/wV1O0I1AXM
✅ Tap ‘Main menu’ → ‘Request a fact-check’
✅ Share a link, image, or video → Tap ‘Submit’
✅ Our team investigates and sends you the truth

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🎶 United in song, they said. But is the video authentic? Turns out, it's AI-generated.

Both original photos were altered into this failed AI masterpiece performance.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/yzAwTBdgse

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AI and advanced image-editing tools can produce convincing content that can fool even the smartest eyes online.

Our team of dedicated researchers, journalists, investigators, and fact-checkers helps you separate fact from fiction.

🤳🏾 Send it to us: https://t.co/wV1O0I1AXM

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🛍️ Gucci, Nike and Prada! The photo is real, but the shopping bags aren't.

The Kenyan leaders were photographed in New York, but the shopping bags were added.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/hlGDXxMHLB

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Turns out, US president Donald Trump never said these words.

This video uses AI-generated audio, and his lip movements do not match the speech.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/5pwOVCcDfQ

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🚩 "Forward this link to your WhatsApp groups" is a classic phishing tactic.

Watch out: this purported Uganda Wildlife Authority recruitment portal is a HOAX!

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/MtjaxOHsL8

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🤔 Are you seeing suspicious job ads or fake recruiter profiles? Not sure if a job ad is genuine? We can verify it for you!

Send us a screenshot, link, or relevant details via WhatsApp to verify it: https://t.co/zAxs6pdaV3

✅ Follow the prompts to request a fact-check.

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AI and advanced image-editing tools can produce convincing content, including deepfakes, that can fool even the smartest eyes online.

Our team of dedicated researchers, journalists, investigators, and fact-checkers helps you separate fact from fiction: https://t.co/wV1O0I1AXM

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💕 Love may be in the air, but this memo isn’t from KU.

Kenyatta University has disavowed a document that asked student couples to move in together to make space for other students.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/bvZ8ILZlMC

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📅 This poster got ahead of itself. Dated October 2026, it circulated in September. Uganda’s Education Ministry has disowned the purported school directives.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/XDLQpkEcYw

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🔎 Use the PesaCheck Tipline to submit content for fact-checking, including suspected fabricated news articles, manipulated images, videos or audio clips, and misleading social media posts.

Read more about PesaCheck’s methodology: https://t.co/BIRBXic74c

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🧾 A few payment receipts and some happy WhatsApp messages can make an investment opportunity look very convincing.

But where are the receipts from everyone who lost money? 👀

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Which was the legitimate headline? Was it “43 days of pain, death," or “Babu's Party Heist”?

The fake boldly claims that Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has taken over the Linda Mwananchi movement, and that's far from true.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/SeBUE5LCOB

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🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀What do you really know about the PesaCheck Tipline?

We'll be taking some time to answer some of your most-asked questions about us.

Got more questions? Ask us in the replies!

When in doubt, send a claim to our Tipline for a fact-check: [phone]

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🛡️ Spotted something suspicious? Let our team fact-check it.

It's easy:
✅ Say hello on our WhatsApp Tipline: https://t.co/wV1O0I1AXM
✅ Tap ‘Main menu’ → ‘Request a fact-check’
✅ Share a link, image, or video → Tap ‘Submit’
✅ Our team investigates and sends you the truth

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🔥 This was not a xenophobic arson attack by a Kenyan man

In the video, a Luganda voice is heard saying, “Fire is finishing off people,” and the vehicles bear Ugandan number plates, clues that the incident occurred in Uganda, not Kenya.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/hb1xucOB44

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This video does not show a new king of Tooro.

At the time of the fact-check, the Tooro Kingdom had not finalised the succession process following the death of Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV on 27 August 2026.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/jXKOAURuLH

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🤳🏾 Join our PesaCheck WhatsApp Channel for regular fact-checks of viral claims circulating online.

🧠 We bust false and misleading claims, manipulated and AI-generated content, out-of-context posts, hoaxes, scams, and more.

Join our channel here: https://t.co/pbzb0MGZDQ

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A death of a king has sparked a wave of misinformation.

Tooro Kingdom's prime minister has disowned a purported statement containing King Oyo's final message and reposted a royal family member's warning that it is fake.

#PesaChecked: https://t.co/XCJZzvy6Kp