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This video on Facebook purportedly of President William Ruto embracing Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya is ALTERED.

The video shows people bearing the likeness of Tuya and Ruto embracing while a small group of people around them claps.

It is accompanied by a post that translates to: Why do you want to break the president’s marriage? Where is Rachel?”

The video has also been shared here, here, and here and comes after Ruto nominated Tuya for the defence cabinet secretary position. The nomination led to misinformation regarding the two, which PesaCheck debunked. There were also online attacks made against the Defence CS.

However, the video is not a true representation of events.

A reverse search of a screengrab from the video brings up an image of Ruto and Tuya that was circulated when she was first nominated as Environment CS in September 2022, as seen here, here, and here.

PesaCheck traced the image to August 2013, when Ruto and Tuya were captured in similar attire as the one in the purported video as seen here, here, and here. The images were taken during a homecoming ceremony for the then Emurua Dikirr MP Johana Ngeno and Narok Woman Representative Soipan Tuya.

Further, a review of the video shows unnatural movements of hands, deformed fingers and limbs, indicating that it was doctored. The inconsistencies can be seen on the hands and the glossy smooth finish on the video, which are characteristics of images and videos created using generative AI. A closer look at the video reveals artificial blurring in the background making the spectators look unreal. The people in the background in other versions of the image are also not the same as the one in the altered video and they are busy interacting with each other, not clapping as they watch Ruto and Tuya. Furthermore, the water body in the background is non-existent in the older version of the image.

A further review of the screengrab on AI image detector ‘Is it AI?’ found the probability of the image being AI generated at 81 per cent.

PesaCheck has looked into a video on Facebook purportedly of President William Ruto embracing Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya and found it to be ALTERED.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Harriet Ogayo and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.

Are they lying? Kenya’s 1st fact-checking initiative verifies statements by public figures. A @Code4Kenya and @IBP_Kenya initiative, supported by @Code4Africa.

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