{"id":15286,"date":"2023-06-27T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2023-06-27T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:36:25","slug":"viral-press-statement-on-regime-change-not-from-national-election-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/viral-press-statement-on-regime-change-not-from-national-election-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral press statement on \u201cregime change\u201d not from National Election Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A press statement has gone viral on social media, supposedly coming from the National Election Watch (NEW), a renowned Civil Society Organization (CSO) in Sierra Leone. Part of the statement’s content reads \u201cRe: Affirming Commitment to Regime Change Arrangement and Questioning ECSL Credibility\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image of the press statement purporting to have been authored by the National Election Watch (NEW).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

DUBAWA contacted the organisation\u2019s chairperson via telephone to comment on the alleged press statement, which carries the organisation\u2019s letterhead, signed and stamped by the chairperson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madam Marcella Samba-Sesay, Chairperson for NEW<\/a>, told DUBAWA the viral statement is \u201cfake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A photo-grid screenshot of the conversation between NEW\u2019s Chairperson and DUBAWA\u2019s Fact-Checker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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VERDICT: False!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A press statement has gone viral on social media, supposedly coming from the National Election Watch (NEW), a renowned Civil Society Organization (CSO) in Sierra Leone. Part of the statement’s content reads \u201cRe: Affirming Commitment to Regime Change Arrangement and Questioning ECSL Credibility\u201d.  Findings DUBAWA contacted the organisation\u2019s chairperson via telephone to comment on the alleged press statement, which carries the organisation\u2019s letterhead, signed and stamped by the chairperson.  Madam Marcella Samba-Sesay, Chairperson for NEW, told DUBAWA the viral statement is \u201cfake.\u201d VERDICT: False!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15287,"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":[3442],"class_list":["post-15286","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-3Yy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3442,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"fayia-j-moseray","display_name":"Fayia J. Moseray","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/New.webp?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=15286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}