A viral link being shared via WhatsApp and Facebook messenger claims that the National Elections Commission (NEC) is currently running a recruitment program for 50 people for the 2023 elections. We find this link to be fake, the NEC is not running any recruitment program for 50 employees. The viral link is a scam intended to invade people’s personal data.
The Claim
Is the NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION (NEC) currently running a recruitment program for the 2023 elections?
Rating Justification
Our iVerify team has fact-checked this content and found it to be fake.
How did we arrive at this conclusion? We reviewed the website of the National Elections Commission and did not see a vacancy notice published for recruitment of 50 new staffers.
A further review of the Commission’s Facebook page shows no “50 jobs vacancy”
As part of the verification process, we carefully analyzed the URL (Uniform Resource Locators) and found that it is different from the URL or website address of the NEC.
The purported website carries a URL that reads https://nec rec.lb.sharpportal.site/#1688652114508.
However, the real website of NEC has https://www.necliberia.org/. as its URL:
To further distinguish the two URLs, we reviewed the job vacancy page of the NEC which reads:https://www.necliberia.org/view_vacancies.php. This URL varies from the fake link which carries https://nec rec.lb.sharpportal.site/#1688652114508.
Conclusion
Based on the above evidence, we conclude that the viral link claiming that NEC is currently running a recruitment program for 2023 is fake and misleading.
DESCRIPTION Viral Link LINK https://nec-rec.lb.sharpportal.site/#1688652114508
DESCRIPTION NEC Facebook page LINK https://www.facebook.com/theNECLiberia
DESCRIPTION NEC Vacancies website LINK http://www.necliberia.org/view_vacancies.php
Local Voices Liberia, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, has implemented the iVerify Liberia system with the objective of strengthening capacities to address threats to information integrity, especially in view of the upcoming 2023 elections, to ensure all Liberian citizens have access to credible, reliable and verified information, everywhere and at all times.
This initiative is funded by Irish Aid, Embassy of Sweden in Monrovia, European Union Delegation in Liberia and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. The donors have no say in the production of this fact check report.
