President Ruto’s Twitter Fiasco: Copycat Moves Raise Eyebrows
After citizens accused the administrators of President William Ruto’s social media accounts of copying content, they found themselves in an embarrassing situation.
A Twitter user with the handle @Kapyoseiin posted a lengthy narrative about the “Second Vulture” at 7:18 a.m. on Monday.
The post was about the photograph taken by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter during the famine in Sudan in 1993-1994, a photograph that won him a Pulitzer Prize for its “amazing shot”
When asked what had happened to the dying girl he had photographed with the vulture waiting for her to take her last breath before devouring her, the photojournalist reportedly became depressed.
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Part of Kapyoseiin’s post stated, “However, while Kevin Carter was enjoying his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks worldwide for such an ‘exceptional photographic skill,’ he lived only a few months to enjoy his supposed achievement and fame before succumbing to depression and committing suicide.”
At 14:44, hours later, the same lengthy tweet was published on President Ruto’s Twitter account with no modifications.
Kenyans on Twitter quickly identified the original tweet by @Kapyoseiin and called out President Ruto’s account.
Additionally, Kapyoseiin claimed that the President had copied his blog post without crediting him.
President Ruto’s Twitter account deleted the post before reposting it minutes later with quotation marks.
However, the original poster of the vulture story did not receive credit.
“In the 1990s, a widely circulated photograph depicted a vulture waiting for a starving child to die so it could feast on her corpse. “The photo was taken during the famine of 1993-1994 in Sudan by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for the ‘amazing shot’,” reads the first paragraph of the second post, which appeared at 3:43 p.m.
President Ruto’s Twitter Fiasco: Copycat Moves Raise Eyebrows
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