{"id":16655,"date":"2023-11-11T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=16655"},"modified":"2023-11-11T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T11:32:16","slug":"old-pictures-recirculated-to-claim-electoral-violence-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/old-pictures-recirculated-to-claim-electoral-violence-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Old pictures recirculated to claim electoral violence in Imo\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: An X user, Sonia <\/strong>(unahsonia)<\/strong><\/a>, shared some pictures of a burnt vehicle and claimed that it was the result of electoral violence sponsored by the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: We ran a reverse image search on both pictures and <\/strong>discovered<\/strong><\/a> the incident is not recent. It happened around 8 am on Oct. 2, 2023, at Ezzangbo junction along Abakaliki Enugu highway, Ohanukwu LGA, Ebonyi state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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VERDICT: INCORRECT <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCES: Google Lens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: 11\/11\/2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT-CHECK AUTHOR: Phillip Anjorin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Bamas Victoria<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: An X user, Sonia (unahsonia), shared some pictures of a burnt vehicle and claimed that it was the result of electoral violence sponsored by the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma. FINDINGS: We ran a reverse image search on both pictures and discovered the incident is not recent. It happened around 8 am on Oct. 2, 2023, at Ezzangbo junction along Abakaliki Enugu highway, Ohanukwu LGA, Ebonyi state. VERDICT: INCORRECT  SOURCES: Google Lens DATE: 11\/11\/2023 FACT-CHECK AUTHOR: Phillip Anjorin EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Bamas Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16656,"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":[5,1571,3812,3815,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-16655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4kD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3760,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"nigerian-fact-checkers-coalition-1","display_name":"Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition","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\/11\/Imo-state.jpg?fit=606%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655","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=16655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}