{"id":207241,"date":"2025-09-15T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-politician-cleophas-malala-didnt-accuse-tv-station-and-journalist-of-being-propaganda-tools-for-president\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:19","slug":"kenyan-politician-cleophas-malala-didnt-accuse-tv-station-and-journalist-of-being-propaganda-tools-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-politician-cleophas-malala-didnt-accuse-tv-station-and-journalist-of-being-propaganda-tools-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Politician Cleophas Malala Didn&#8217;t Accuse TV Station and Journalist of Being &#8216;Propaganda Tools&#8217; for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Kenyan politician Cleophas Malala didn&#8217;t accuse TV station and journalist of being &#8216;propaganda tools&#8217; for president<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Two graphics circulating online falsely quote Cleophas Malala, the interim deputy leader of Kenya&#8217;s Democracy for Citizens party, as calling Citizen TV and one of its journalists &#8220;propaganda tools&#8221; for the president. However, the claim is fabricated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">On 26 August 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rigathi\">Rigathi Gachagua<\/a>, Kenya&#8217;s former deputy president and leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dcpkenya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy for the Citizens<\/a> (DCP)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan politician Cleophas Malala didn&#8217;t accuse TV station and journalist of being &#8216;propaganda tools&#8217; for president IN SHORT: Two graphics circulating online falsely quote Cleophas Malala, the interim deputy leader of Kenya&#8217;s Democracy for Citizens party, as calling Citizen TV and one of its journalists &#8220;propaganda tools&#8221; for the president. However, the claim is fabricated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8893,258,256,52348,19218,7277,430,4524,35177,257,8314,2450,2889,254,10613,8403],"class_list":["post-207241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cleophas","tag-didnt","tag-journalist","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-malala","tag-news","tag-politician","tag-president","tag-propaganda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-station","tag-tools"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}