The incorrect report presents the Democratic Republic of the Congo as one country disillusioned And plagued by corruption. It states in particular that President Tshisekedi did not do this nothing concrete since he came to power in 2018.

The video begins and ends with credits from news broadcast 21 clock which was not produced by Radio-Canada but by a YouTuber named Frédéric Brandt. On his channel there are dozens of videos with credits or skins that he made himself for well-known shows. The one from which the sequence used in the hoax came RDC went online seven years ago.

From our observations, the video’s narrator’s voice appears to be generated by artificial intelligence due to its monotony and robotic tone. Particular mistakes in the pronunciation of certain words, such as is notare also typical of language generation tools.

In addition, members of Radio-Canada’s television production team confirmed that the report failed to meet certain graphic and visual standards set by Crown Corporation. For example, there is never a logo in the bottom right corner as seen in the video.

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This hoax is circulating as the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are scheduled for November. Professor and author Lomomba Emongo, who closely follows the political situation in Congo, explains that many misleading or bipartisan video montages have been circulating in the DRC and in the Congolese diaspora lately.

There are two camps that we see at Tshisekedi on the internet: one desperately wants to improve his record and the other wants to make it even worse than it already is. The analysis in the video is more or less correct in my opinion, but the way it is done is totally unacceptablesums up Mr. Emongo.

According to our observations on Twitter, several of the accounts that shared the video actually belong to supporters of former Congolese President Joseph Kabila, who ruled from 2001 to 2019.