FALSE: This image of a pedestrian bridge was taken in China, not Uganda
The bridge captured in the image is in Kunming, China.
An image shared on Facebook claiming to show a pedestrian bridge at Wandegeya in Kampala, Uganda is FALSE.
The text accompanying the image of the pedestrian bridge reads, “Have you tried crossing the road lately around wandegeya?”
However, a Google reverse image search shows the photo in the claim is a pedestrian bridge in Kunming, China and not Wandegeya in Kampala, Uganda. The image is available in the public domain on Wikimedia where it was uploaded by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) from its Flickr account. ITDP indicates that the photo was taken on 28 November 2009.
The image has been featured here, here and here with a corresponding identification as a pedestrian bridge in Kunming, China.
PesaCheck has looked into an image shared on Facebook claiming to show a pedestrian bridge in Wandegeya, Kampala and finds it to be FALSE.
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 Pius Enywaru and edited by PesaCheck chief copy editor Rose Lukalo.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Enock Nyariki.
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.
