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This poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs and internship opportunities at the Kenya Red Cross is a HOAX.
The poster has outlined some of the supposed vacancies and listed conditions prospective job seekers must meet for their applications to be considered.
Prospective applicants must be Kenyan citizens, be prepared to work extra hours in any region, be prompt in responding to emergencies, and have attained any level of education.
A website and email address have been provided for prospective applicants to submit their applications.
The poster also appears here and here.
But is the poster authentic?
The website on the poster (http://www.redcross.co.ke/) is not functional and has a .co.ke domain, while the authentic Kenya Red Cross website uses a .or.ke domain (https://www.redcross.or.ke/).
Lastly, the poster’s email address has a Gmail domain, whereas the Kenya Red Cross’ official email addresses use a .or.ke domain, for instance, [email protected].
We checked the Kenya Red Cross website and established that it had five vacancies as of 13 June 2024, but they are different from the ones on the poster in question.
On 12 June 2024, the Kenya Red Cross disowned the poster and affirmed that all its vacancies are only posted on its website.
“We continue to warn members of the public not to fall victim to this fake recruitment exercise. Legitimate job opportunities with us are exclusively posted here. Stay vigilant and beware of such fraudulent posters,” the humanitarian organisation said.
PesaCheck investigated a poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs and internship opportunities at the Kenya Red Cross and found it to be a HOAX.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.
This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.
PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.
Are they lying? Kenya’s 1st fact-checking initiative verifies statements by public figures. A @Code4Kenya and @IBP_Kenya initiative, supported by @Code4Africa.
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This poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs and internship opportunities at the Kenya Red Cross is a HOAX.
The poster has outlined some of the supposed vacancies and listed conditions prospective job seekers must meet for their applications to be considered.
Prospective applicants must be Kenyan citizens, be prepared to work extra hours in any region, be prompt in responding to emergencies, and have attained any level of education.
A website and email address have been provided for prospective applicants to submit their applications.
The poster also appears here and here.
But is the poster authentic?
The website on the poster (http://www.redcross.co.ke/) is not functional and has a .co.ke domain, while the authentic Kenya Red Cross website uses a .or.ke domain (https://www.redcross.or.ke/).
Lastly, the poster’s email address has a Gmail domain, whereas the Kenya Red Cross’ official email addresses use a .or.ke domain, for instance, [email protected].
We checked the Kenya Red Cross website and established that it had five vacancies as of 13 June 2024, but they are different from the ones on the poster in question.
On 12 June 2024, the Kenya Red Cross disowned the poster and affirmed that all its vacancies are only posted on its website.
“We continue to warn members of the public not to fall victim to this fake recruitment exercise. Legitimate job opportunities with us are exclusively posted here. Stay vigilant and beware of such fraudulent posters,” the humanitarian organisation said.
PesaCheck investigated a poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs and internship opportunities at the Kenya Red Cross and found it to be a HOAX.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.
This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.
PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.
Are they lying? Kenya’s 1st fact-checking initiative verifies statements by public figures. A @Code4Kenya and @IBP_Kenya initiative, supported by @Code4Africa.
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·Published in·4 min read·Jun 16, 2024Follow UsLike UsEmail UsWhatsApp UsEnglishKenyaShort FormWritten by PesaCheck5.8K Followers·Editor for FollowMore from PesaCheck and PesaCheckHOAX: UNICEF is not running this cash promotion in UgandaThe United Nations humanitarian and development agency dismissed the promotion as fake.Mar 13FALSE: Margarine is not similar to plastic and does not share 27 ingredients with paintPlastics are polymers and completely unrelated to anything in margarine.Apr 29, 20219SATIRE: No couple was arrested for opening a fake Centenary Bank branch in Masaka, UgandaBoth the bank and the Ugandan police have dismissed the claim as fake.Jun 10, 2022FALSE: There is no case filed at British Luton Crown Court seeking the deportation of Kiambu…The British court told PesaCheck that there is no information about the said case in their records.