Post Grid – Style 9

Fact-checking claims about the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda/ An Explainer

Source: Ugandan journalist Daniel Lutaaya (September 2022) Verdict: Claim 1: Correct/ Claim 2: Exaggerated  As the world debated the Covid 19 pandemic, after former US President Joe Biden in September 2022 controversially…

False: Speaker Among Did Not Hire US Delegation to Influence Trump to Lift Sanctions Against Her

A claim on the microblogging app (X) that the speaker of the parliament of Uganda, Anita Annet Among, hired a US delegation of ” lobbyists” to influence the United States of America…

False: Elon Musk Did Not Suspend Gen. Muhoozi’s X Account as Purported by KJNews

An X/Twitter post published by the Kampala Journal (KJNews) claiming that US businessman Elon Musk suspended Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba from X is false. Evidence shows it…

Fact-checking Distorted Images of Raymond Mujuni on social media platforms

Verdict: False’ AI-Generated Images and Defamation  Source: Mutebi Kabaka, Instagram and Facebook   The Claim  Distorted images of Raymond Mujuni are continuously being circulated on different social media platforms. The images are…

False: Pastor Bugingo Of House of Prayer Ministries International Hasn’t Launched “Holy Soda” at UGX 50,000

An X post by the Kampala Journal News (KJNews), an online platform claiming that Pastor Aloysius Bugingo,  launched  “holy soda” that costs fifty thousand Ugandan shillings (UGX 50,000) for a bottle, is…

Out of Context and Misleading: The Photo of Winnie Banyima And Director of Public Prosecution Jane Frances Abodo Is From Another Incident

An X post by the Kampala Journal News (KJNews) claiming that  Winnie Byanyima the Executive Director of the United Nations AIDS program, in desperation met with the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP),…