A FACT-CHECKING EXERCISE CONDUCTED ON A TRENDING NEWS STORY

 

Former Trade and Industry Minister, John Alan Kyerematen has alleged that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been hijacked by a selected group of party leaders, elders, and government appointees. He made this claim whiles addressing a press conference on Monday, September 25, 2023, at the Movenpic Ambassador Hotel.

This news item was found on myjoyonline news outlet and trusting this source for accurate and unbiased in reports, I will run it through a fact checking site to verify the image to check if it has been manipulated.



There are several ways or methods to factcheck if a piece of information is misinformed or disinformed to its audience, but I choose to use TinEye reverse image search engine to factcheck Allan’s resignation from NPP.

You can search an image or perform a reverse image search by uploading the image or searching by URL, you drag and drop your images to start the search.

I downloaded the picture myjoyonline.com used on Allans resignation from his political and pasted it on TinEye and 19 results searched over 62 .5 billion images in 1.3 seconds for IMG-6148.png

This shows that www.myjoyonline.com first found on Sep 16 ,2022 the -private-sector-can drive-Ghana -ec

Over-¢ 260m-disbursed-as interest-subs first found on July 18, 2022

The search showed that GhanaWeb,Seekersnewsgh.com,The Ghanaian Voice.com,X, Ghanaian times ,Myjoyonline.com

The search showed that GhanaWeb,Seekersnewsgh.com,The Ghanaian Voice.com,X, Ghanaian times ,Myjoyonline.com ,The Maravi Post, African News Agency,hypesmediagh.com,thebtonline.com, Africa feeds, Star FM  used it,  but it has not been touched or manipulated.

 

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