On June 25, 2025, protests in multiple Kenyan cities commemorated a deadly demonstration from the previous year against a finance bill. The 2024 protests were violently repressed, leading to numerous fatalities. In 2025, rallies intended to honor the victims were similarly met with force, resulting in significant online attention. Notably, misleading claims arose as old footage from unrelated protests, specifically an Ethiopian demonstration, was distributed as if it depicted the recent events in Kenya. Fact-checkers confirmed the inauthenticity of several viral videos and images used in this context.
A 17-second video published on TikTok, with over 500,000 views, allegedly shows footage from the 25 June 2025 protests in Nairobi, Kenya, but is actually old footage from Ethiopia.
Old footage from Ethiopia was circulated with a misleading claim, exposing the falsity of content surrounding the protests, as first segment's source traces back to September 2018.
The first segment, labelled 'Addis Ababa at the moment,' shows a protest triggered by ethnic violence, not related to the events in Nairobi.
The second part of the video that shows a gathering in central Nairobi has been misrepresented in the context of the June 2025 protests.
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