April Fool’s Day article about Obama moving to Kenya fuels online misinformation

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April Fool’s Day article about Obama moving to Kenya fuels online misinformation
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Is BarackObama relocating to Kenya? No, MaryKulundu found that a Kenyan news site posted about the former US president moving there as an April Fool's Day joke, but it is now being used to fuel online misinformation.

) as part of an April Fool’s Day joke claiming the 44th US president was deployed as an envoy to his father’s homeland.

In the write-up, the Standard cryptically gave readers a clue that the article was an April Fools’ Day joke by printing"April Fool’s Day” backwards in one of the paragraphs. “But it is increasingly appearing that Obama could settle in Nyeri with locals noticing a grand, highly secured, ultramodern block, cryptically labelledOn April 2, 2023, the paper added a disclaimer at the end of the article specifying that it was an April Fool’s Day joke.

A screenshot of the April Fool’s Day story on The Standard’s website, featuring the disclaimer at the bottom This is not the first time an April Fool’s Day joke has been used out of context to fuel misinformation online. AFP Fact Check has debunked several including

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