According to a BBC News screenshot, seven coronavirus victims in Rwanda were shot dead by unknown gunmen.
Seven “victims” of the coronavirus have been “shot dead by unknown gunmen” in Rwanda, claims what seems to be a screenshot of post by BBC News, reposted on Facebook., The screenshot shows a photo of Rwandan president Paul Kagame. One version includes the text: “The acts of kindness sparked by coronavirus.”, Did BBC News report that seven people infected with the new coronavirus were killed in Rwanda?, A strip of colour beneath the Kagame’s photo suggests that the screenshot may be a manipulated version of a real BBC Facebook post, with the photo overlaid on the original., A Google search for the phrase “the acts of kindness sparked by coronavirus Facebook.com” returns a BBC News Facebook post dated 17 March 2020., The post shows two smiling women – not Kagame – and links to a BBC News report on emergency appeals and volunteer work to help limit the impact of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak., The post’s headline reads: “The acts of kindness sparked by coronavirus”., A reverse image search of the Kagame photo reveals that it was taken on 31 March 2011. It can be found on the Getty Images stock photo site, and on AFP Forum., BBC News Africa has branded the post fake and urged people to always verify news, especially about the coronavirus., “This article is fake and was not made by the BBC. We urge people to verify news stories at bbc.com/Africa to ensure they have accurate and reliable information about the coronavirus,” it posted on Facebook and Twitter. – Dancan Bwire, , "A fact-checker has rated your Facebook or Instagram post as “false”. What should you do? First, dont delete!", Click on our guide for the steps you should follow., Publishers guide, Africa Check is a partner in Facebook’s third-party fact-checking programme to help stop the spread of false information on social media., The content we rate as “false” will be downgraded on Facebook and Instagram. This means fewer people will see it., You can also help identify false information on Facebook. This guide explains how., Africa Check is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers fighting misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic., Learn more about the alliance here., , © Copyright Africa Check 2020. Read our republishing guidelines.\xa0You may reproduce this piece or content from it for the purpose of reporting and/or discussing news and current events. This is subject to: Crediting Africa Check in the byline, keeping all hyperlinks to the sources used and adding this sentence at the end of your publication: “This report was written by Africa Check, a non-partisan fact-checking organisation. View the original piece on their website", with a link back to this page., We depend on voluntary donations to run this site. Please help us to keep public figures accountable by supporting the project., Find out more, For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results., , Get a weekly dose of facts, straight to your inbox.
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