{"id":24026,"date":"2025-08-20T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:55:44","slug":"the-spoon-tv-owner-did-not-buy-freedom-fm-87-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/the-spoon-tv-owner-did-not-buy-freedom-fm-87-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spoon TV owner did not buy Freedom FM 87.9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: <\/strong>A Facebook user and All-Star Contributor to an online bloc, \u201cFRIES FM,\u201d has alleged that Spoon TV Owner, Stanton Witherspoon, has bought Freedom FM 87.9 TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict:<\/strong> Misleading! Freedom FM Station Manager, Kyne Oliver Kyne<\/a>, described the claim as misleading. He said there is no immediate plan to sell the station, but admitted there is some form of collaboration with the Spoon TV owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Facebook user, \u201cPolitical Sycamoretree,\u201d shared on a popular online platform, FRIES FM, claiming that Spoon TV Owner, Stanton Witherspoon, has bought Freedom FM 87.9 TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom FM\/TV<\/a> is a media institution on Carrey Street in Monrovia, owned by Sam Siryon, a seasoned Security Expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His post comes amid flyers circulating on social media suggesting a planned media partnership between the two institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA conducted a fact-check on Political Sycamoretree’s claim because it could misinform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The researcher contacted the claimant to provide evidence to back his claim, but he refused to answer the many inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our researcher also contacted the station Manager of Freedom FM\/TV, Kyne Oliver Kyne, who denied the claim and described it as false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is false and misleading! We have no intention of selling Freedom FM, not now, and not in the near future. As for collaboration, there is a proposal to collaborate on programming mutually, but such conversations are in the embryonic phase.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, during the 31-minute edition of \u201cSPOON<\/strong> TALK,<\/strong>\u201d a widely listened-to political show, the SPOON FM CEO revealed<\/a> a planned collaboration with Freedom FM to relaunch the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Based on the response from Freedom FM Station Manager and the latest revelation of a collaboration with Freedom FM by SPOON FM CEO, the claim made by Political Sycamoretree is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: A Facebook user and All-Star Contributor to an online bloc, \u201cFRIES FM,\u201d has alleged that Spoon TV Owner, Stanton Witherspoon, has bought Freedom FM 87.9 TV. Verdict: Misleading! Freedom FM Station Manager, Kyne Oliver Kyne, described the claim as misleading. He said there is no immediate plan to sell the station, but admitted there is some form of collaboration with the Spoon TV owner.\u00a0 Full Text A Facebook user, \u201cPolitical Sycamoretree,\u201d shared on a popular online platform, FRIES FM, claiming that Spoon TV Owner, Stanton Witherspoon, has bought Freedom FM 87.9 TV. Freedom FM\/TV is a media institution on Carrey Street in Monrovia, owned by Sam Siryon, a seasoned Security Expert. His post comes amid flyers circulating on social media suggesting a planned media partnership between the two institutions. DUBAWA conducted a fact-check on Political Sycamoretree’s claim because it could misinform. Verification The researcher contacted the claimant to provide evidence to back his claim, but he refused to answer the many inquiries. Our researcher also contacted the station Manager of Freedom FM\/TV, Kyne Oliver Kyne, who denied the claim and described it as false. \u201cThis is false and misleading! We have no intention of selling Freedom FM, not now, and not in the near future. As for collaboration, there is a proposal to collaborate on programming mutually, but such conversations are in the embryonic phase.\u201d  However, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, during the 31-minute edition of \u201cSPOON TALK,\u201d a widely listened-to political show, the SPOON FM CEO revealed a planned collaboration with Freedom FM to relaunch the show. Conclusion Based on the response from Freedom FM Station Manager and the latest revelation of a collaboration with Freedom FM by SPOON FM CEO, the claim made by Political Sycamoretree is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24027,"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":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_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":[1960,1571,123],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[4091],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liberia","category-fact-check","category-mainstream"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6fw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4091,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"lee-monjue","display_name":"Lee Monjue","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\/2025\/08\/unnamed-94.jpg?fit=612%2C601&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","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=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24028,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions\/24028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}