{"id":15270,"date":"2023-06-26T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=15270"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:45:06","slug":"viral-ayv-newspaper-headline-on-dr-kamara-as-president-elect-doctored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/viral-ayv-newspaper-headline-on-dr-kamara-as-president-elect-doctored\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral AYV Newspaper headline on Dr Kamara as president-elect, doctored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: A supposed front page of a popular newspaper in Sierra Leone, AYV Newspaper, has gone viral with a banner headline “Inter-Religious Council congratulates President-Elect Dr. Samura M Kamara.” The headline story is part of the June 26 edition of the Africa Young Voices Newspaper (AYV-News).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image of the supposed AYV Newspaper front page with the claim of IRCSL congratulating Dr Samura Kamara as President-Elect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Findings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA’s check on the viral content shows that the viral front page newspaper had been doctored, as seen in the newspaper’s original copy below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, the Head of Programs at the Africa Young Voices Media Empire \u2013 Mr Samuel Wise-Bangura<\/a>, in the AYV\u2019s popular Good Morning Salone show on Monday, 26 June 2023<\/a>, vehemently dissociated their institution from the doctored newspaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the management of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL) <\/a>has on Monday, June 26, 2023, equally published a statement signed and stamped by the Council\u2019s Secretary General and President, Rev. Dr Usman Jesse Fornah and Most Rev. Dr Edward Tamba Charles<\/a>, respectively, dissociating the Council from the purported front page story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press statement from IRCSL dissociating the Council from the purported congratulatory note to the main opposition leader \u2013 Dr Samura Kamara. Image Source: IRCSL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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VERDICT: FALSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUTHORS: Fayia Jnr Moseray and Edna Egegba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: A supposed front page of a popular newspaper in Sierra Leone, AYV Newspaper, has gone viral with a banner headline “Inter-Religious Council congratulates President-Elect Dr. Samura M Kamara.” The headline story is part of the June 26 edition of the Africa Young Voices Newspaper (AYV-News). Findings DUBAWA’s check on the viral content shows that the viral front page newspaper had been doctored, as seen in the newspaper’s original copy below. Also, the Head of Programs at the Africa Young Voices Media Empire \u2013 Mr Samuel Wise-Bangura, in the AYV\u2019s popular Good Morning Salone show on Monday, 26 June 2023, vehemently dissociated their institution from the doctored newspaper.\u00a0 Additionally, the management of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL) has on Monday, June 26, 2023, equally published a statement signed and stamped by the Council\u2019s Secretary General and President, Rev. Dr Usman Jesse Fornah and Most Rev. Dr Edward Tamba Charles, respectively, dissociating the Council from the purported front page story.\u00a0\u00a0 VERDICT: FALSE AUTHORS: Fayia Jnr Moseray and Edna Egegba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5,1571,3797,1268],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[873],"class_list":["post-15270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-live-updates","category-sierra-leone"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3Yi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":873,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dubawa","display_name":"Dubawa","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f70a877f6d81734de0ca299eabb33d20687f41f5a4cb83ae8d754fc9412ee293?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Strengthening Investigative Journalism for the fight against corruption in Nigeria."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samura-Kamara-.webp?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=15270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}