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  • 2022-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Ugandan tabloid front page with headline about Kenya’s deputy president photoshopped (en)
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  • An image of what looks like the front page of the Red Pepper , a Ugandan tabloid newspaper, has been posted on Facebook. The headline reads: Kenyan Deputy President Gave Me Herpes. A summary below the headline adds : Kampala prostitute laments how the Kenyan leader paid handsomely only for her to be left with a smelly UTI after a 3-day romp session. Next to the headline is a photo of a woman with her face obscured and the claim: Medical reports from a doctor in Rubaga show herpes infection. The front page was also posted here , here , here and here . Kenyan deputy president William Ruto is one of the frontrunners for president in the country’s general elections scheduled for 9 August 2022. But did a Ugandan tabloid really lead with such a shocking story in early April? We checked. Red flags The front page doesn't show a date of publication which is an unlikely omission for a newspaper. Another red flag that the front page may be fake is that the headline text looks squeezed and a bit smaller than the daily’s typical front-page font . The Red Pepper shared an image of the circulating front page on their official Twitter account on 4 April and called it fake. Please disregard this and treat it with the contempt it deserves, the tabloid wrote . In another tweet, Red Pepper posted the original front page that had been manipulated. It was from the paper published on 9 February 2018 and the real headline read : Get off my wife. It featured the same woman’s photo, but with her face visible, above a small headline that read: Richest Ugandan Artistes Ranked. The front page circulating on social media has been doctored. (en)
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