This poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs at Equity Bank Kenya is a HOAX.
According to the graphic, the financial institution has 120 job openings. Prospective applicants are required to submit their applications via the email address provided.
The poster has also been shared here, here, and here.
But is the poster authentic?
First, the email address on the poster has an Outlook domain, while the ones listed on Equity Bank Kenya’s website use a different domain, such as this one: [email protected].
PesaCheck reviewed Equity Bank Kenya’s X (formerly Twitter) account and Facebook page, where the lender conventionally shares such opportunities, but did not find the poster under investigation.
PesaCheck contacted Equity Bank Kenya on X and established that it posts all its vacancies on its official website.
“We post all job openings on our website. Please keep an eye on the link below,” the bank said.
A review of the bank’s website revealed that as of 12 June 2024, Equity Bank Kenya did not have any of the vacancies on the poster under investigation.
PesaCheck examined a poster on Facebook purportedly advertising jobs at Equity Bank Kenya 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.
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