A viral post on social media claims that leading Hollywood celebrities have endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP), ahead of the 2023 elections.
Charles Oputa, also known as “Charly Boy” shared the video via his verified Twitter handle, @AreaFada1, to his 157k followers.
This claim is Misleading, here are the reasons.
We subjected the video to analysis on Invid, a video verification platform, to ascertain the validity of the video.
A keyframe analysis of the video was further subjected to Google reverse image search. The result of the analysis led to wired.com and laughingsquid.com, where we found the original video which was doctored to mislead social media users.
Conclusion
The circulating video showing Hollywood actors endorsing Obi and canvassing votes for him is misleading.
