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Kenyans fall victim to fake news on violence

(Photo Couresy)

Several pictures and reports circulating online purporting to have been taken during the protests prompted by Friday's poll results are fake.

A photograph of a boy screaming in terror allegedly taken in Kisumu during a police raid on Friday night was infact taken in Kibera, almost a decade ago.

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