BBC, CNN deny announcing that Uhuru and Ruto will win the August elections

President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee Party are facing a backlash on social media after two videos purporting to be from CNN and BBC were disowned by the two global media giants.A fake video report about Kenya's election that is made to appear as if it is from the BBC's Focus on Africa programme has been circulating on social media.The report contains a bogus poll indicating that President Uhuru Kenyatta will win August's election.The BBC has urged Kenyans to verify stories by visiting the BBC website.A recent survey suggested that 90% of Kenyans had seen or heard false news in the run-up to the poll.Many of the people surveyed felt that some news items had been deliberately misleading.BBC in a statement on twitter, said the video on the Kenyan election was fake but they were yet to know the source of the video. The media giant said the fake BBC story had been trending on WhatsApp from Friday morning, July 28.''A fake video report about Kenya's election that is made to appear as if it is from the BBC's Focus on Africa programme has been circulating on social media, ''The report contains a bogus poll indicating that President Uhuru Kenyatta will win August's election. The BBC has urged Kenyans to verify stories by visiting the BBC website,'' the BBC statement read. 

The BBC is aware of a fake video circulating on WhatsApp about the #Kenya Election. This is NOT a BBC story. Don’t fall for #fakenews! pic.twitter.com/Asn9zdhy6A

— BBC Africa (@BBCAfrica) July 28, 2017

CNN also in a tweet on its public relations twitter handle dismissed the video as fake news.''This report on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is fake. CNN did not produce or broadcast this story,'' the tweet read. Below are some of the reactions from Kenyans after the two media giants disowned the videos.