Who Are The Unpatriotic Dirty Heroes Of False And Fake News Defaming India?
By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
New York Times didn’t feature Modi on front page or call him ‘last hope’. “Image is fake”. The Print: https://theprint.in/hoaxposed/
Who Are The Unpatriotic Dirty Heroes Of False And Fake News Defaming India? “New York Times didn’t feature Modi on front page or call him ‘last hope’: “Image is fake”. Several social media users have been posting an image of a fake front page of The New York Times featuring PM Modi. RAGHAV BIKHCHANDANI 27 September, 2021 2:22 pm IST”: https://theprint.in/hoaxposed/
Several social media users have been posting an image of a fake front page of The New York Times featuring PM Modi. RAGHAV BIKHCHANDANI 27 September, 2021 2:22 pm IST: https://theprint.in/hoaxposed/
The screenshot features a large photograph of PM Modi along with the headline “Last, Best Hope of Earth” and the strap “World’s most loved and most powerful leader is here to bless us”, referring to Modi’s US visit on 24-25 September. The edition is dated 26 September 2021.
The image of the purported NYT front page was circulated en masse on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp group chats, with messages like “Proud of my PM” accompanying it.
National general secretary of the BJP Youth Wing, Rohit Chahal, who has over 76,000 followers, also retweeted the screenshot posted by another user.
One WhatsApp forward of the photograph states: “Modi ji on the frontpage of the United States’ biggest newspaper. What could be a greater matter of pride than this?”
The screenshot in circulation, however, is not the front page of The New York Times. In fact, the 26 September, 2021 front page of the newspaper did not feature any story on PM Modi.
Furthermore, none of the social media posts provided an accompanying URL that linked to the newspaper page.
A closer look at the screenshot itself, as well as the pattern of social media posts, also reveals that the image is morphed.
The font style of the headline in the screenshot does not match the NYT stylesheet, which proves that the image has been altered. The date of the story also features a typo — 26 “Setpember” instead of 26 September 2021.
The image of PM Modi used in the fake front page appears to have been taken from a Zee News story published last month, titled, “PM Modi to chair UNSC high-level open debate on enhancing maritime security.” https://theprint.in/hoaxposed/
(i) “Was it not directly advising by Amit Shah to BJP Social Media Volunteers to follow the politics of creating fear and the deceit to use social media in the manner to win all elections always”?(ii) “This is something worth doing but don’t do it! (Crowd laughs) Do you understand what I am saying? This is something worth doing but don’t do it!”. “Real or Fake, We Can Make Any Message Go Viral: Amit Shah to BJP Social Media Volunteers: "We can keep making messages go viral, whether they are real or fake, sweet or sour," the BJP president boasted”.
(iii) The international community may be feeling astonished after knowing all this happening in my India, but who are ignorant about our democracy and our system, are our friends and shall remain so till their awakening and awareness, otherwise...??? Isn’t?
(iv) Oh! My Indians! Left for you, my Indians to decide and find answer to the problems in our democracy and in our system? Thanks
(v) Was all this not the inner truth and or falsehood of our Indian politics, which includes ugly character of the politicians in general in India? http://www.thekhalsa.org/
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Who Are The Unpatriotic Dirty Heroes Of False And Fake News Defaming India?