No, Junet has not congratulated DP Ruto on his election as Kenya’s fifth President.

Claim

Junet Mohammed congratulates William Ruto as the 5th President of Kenya on behalf of Azimio Coalition

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is Misleading.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reviewed Junet’s official social media account and did not find the existence of such post. However, we discovered that the account that shared the tweet is a pseudo account since it was created in January 2022, with 1,063 following and 536 followers, whereas the legislator’s authentic Twitter account was created in June 2013, with 187 following and 923.8K followers.

We also discovered that the tweet was created using Fake Tweet Creator Post, a Google Play app.

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True

The claim is rigorous and the content is demonstrably true.

Half True

The statement is correct, although it needs clarification additional information or context.

Unproven

Evidence publicly available neither proves nor disproves the claim. More research is needed.

Misleading

The statement contains correct data, but ignores very important elements or is mixed with incorrect data giving a different, inaccurate or false impression.

False

The claim is inaccurate according to the best evidence publicly available at this time.

Retraction

Upon further investigation of the claim, a different conclusion was determined leading to the removal of the initial determination.

Toxic

A rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is somewhat likely to make you leave a discussion or give up on sharing your perspective. Based on algorithmic detection of issues around toxicity, obscenity, threats, insults, and hate speech;

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