After India's Supreme Court ruled that the government's electoral bond scheme was 'unconstitutional', online posts shared a purported New York Times cartoon mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the decision. AFP found the original newspaper cutting did not feature the cartoon, which was created as satire by a social media user.
After India's Supreme Court ruled that the government's electoral bond scheme was"unconstitutional", online posts shared a purported New York Times cartoon mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the decision. AFP found the original newspaper cutting did not feature the cartoon, which was created as satire by a social media user.
"On electoral bonds, the international media The New York Times is telling that the king has become naked," read a Hindi-language caption of a post shared by aon January 2, 2018.
By searching for the username"@educatedbilla" mentioned in the false posts, AFP found the first version of the manipulated front page was"This is satire and I created it with the help of the MS paintbrush tool," he said.
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