This post is part of a continuous series of PesaCheck fact checks examining content marked as follows Potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platformsThird-party fact-checking organizations like Pesacheck help to organize facts from fiction. We do this by providing deeper insights and context into the posts they see in their social media feeds.
Have you found anything on Facebook that you think is fake or false information? This is how you report. and, This is More information Pesacheck's Methodology For fact checking suspicious content.
This fact check was written by the Senior Fact Checker at Pesacheck Pius Aniwal Edited by Pesacheck Senior Copy Editor Mary Muscia and Chief Copy Editor Stephen Ndeguva.
This article has been approved to be published by the Pesacheck Managing Editor Doreen Weinna.
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