Following a spat between Moses Kuria, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Nation Media Group (NMG), the...
Author - Linda Ngari
Linda is a fact-checking and data journalist. She was the Piga Firimbi editor. She is passionate about acquiring and utilising OSINT tools and skills to tell stories that matter to a modern day tech-savvy audience in innovative ways.
An Italian weather news website published a post on March 17, 2023, as archived Here. The post contains an image captioned: “There is no peace in Turkey, in the...
A TikTok post archived here, shows a flooded area. According to the post’s caption, the video supposedly shows the impact of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and...
A Greek news website published an article on May 5, 2023, reporting on floods in Congo’s South Kivu area. However, is the image attached to the article connected...
A tweet archived here was posted on February 23, 2023 and contains an image of an emaciated person lying on the ground. In reference to the drought situation in Northern...
The phrase ‘Climate Change’ has steadily piqued the interest of many Kenyans. In fact, April 2023 is the month when the most number of Kenyans were interested in...
A tweet, archived here, claims that the floods experienced in Pakistan in 2022 allegedly displaced 50 million people. This claim was also shared here and here...
MISLEADING: Images Used in This Article Do Not Show the Impact of Recent Floods in South Africa
An article published on the Waza news website on February 15, 2023 claims to show the impact of the recent fatal floods in South Africa. Background Parts of South Africa...
A tweet published on April 4, 2023 claims to show the recent impact of floods in Kenya’s Northern region. This image was also recently published on a more popular...
A TikTok post claims to illustrate floods occurring in Kenya’s North-Eastern region. The post which has a video showing cattle being swept away by floods also...